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Harmony vs Inharmony - What's the difference?

harmony | inharmony |

As nouns the difference between harmony and inharmony

is that harmony is agreement or accord while inharmony is lack of harmony.

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

    inharmony

    English

    Noun

  • Lack of harmony.
  • * 1909 , , "What I Saw of Shiloh" in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I :
  • Here in the night stretches a wide and blasted field studded with half-extinct fires burning redly with I know not what presage of evil. . . . To what monstrous inharmony of death was it the visible prelude?
  • * 1912 , , The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance , ch. 22:
  • Tom Slater made a congratulatory speech—in reality, a mournful adjuration to avoid the pitfalls of matrimonial inharmony .

    Synonyms

    * disharmony (Webster 1913)