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Disharmony vs Inharmonicity - What's the difference?

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Disharmony is a related term of inharmonicity.


As nouns the difference between disharmony and inharmonicity

is that disharmony is the absence of harmony or concordance while inharmonicity is (literally) the quality or state of being not or less then totally harmonious.

disharmony

English

Noun

(disharmonies)
  • The absence of harmony or concordance.
  • * 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
    • Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.

    Synonyms

    * inharmony (not as common)

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    inharmonicity

    English

    Noun

    (inharmonicities)
  • (literally) The quality or state of being not or less then totally harmonious
  • (music) The degree to which the frequencies of overtones (known as partial tones or harmonics) depart from whole multiples of the fundamental frequency.

    • Antonyms

    * harmony * harmonicity

    Related terms

    * anharmonicity * disharmony