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Harmonize vs Reconcile - What's the difference?

harmonize | reconcile |

As verbs the difference between harmonize and reconcile

is that harmonize is to be in harmonious agreement while reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

harmonize

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (British)

Verb

  • To be in (l) (l).
  • (music) To play or sing in harmony.
  • To bring things into harmony, or to make things (l).
  • To provide the harmony for a (l).

    • Related terms

    * harmonization

    reconcile

    English

    (reconciliation)

    Verb

    (reconcil)
  • To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
    • to reconcile people who have quarrelled
  • To make things compatible or consistent.
    • to reconcile differences
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
  • * John Locke
    • The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
  • To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

    • Derived terms

    * reconciliation