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Harmony vs Disharmony - What's the difference?

harmony | disharmony |

As nouns the difference between harmony and disharmony

is that harmony is agreement or accord while disharmony is the absence of harmony or concordance.

As a proper noun Harmony

is {{given name|female|from=Latin}}.

harmony

Noun

(harmonies)
  • Agreement or accord.
  • * America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.'' — , '' Why It’s Time to Worry , Newsweek 2010-12-04
  • A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
  • (music) The academic study of chords.
  • (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
  • (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
  • A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.
  • a harmony of the Gospels

    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