Mismatch vs Discrepancy - What's the difference?
mismatch | discrepancy | Synonyms |
To match unsuitably; to fail to match
Something that does not match; something dissimilar, inappropriate or unsuitable.
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, year=2012
, date=September 7
, author=Dominic Fifield
, title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova
, work=The Guardian
An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
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, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The state or quality of being discrepant.
Discrepancy is a synonym of mismatch.
As nouns the difference between mismatch and discrepancy
is that mismatch is something that does not match; something dissimilar, inappropriate or unsuitable while discrepancy is an inconsistency between facts or sentiments.As a verb mismatch
is to match unsuitably; to fail to match.mismatch
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(es)Etymology 2
Noun
(es)citation, page= , passage=After all the trepidation born of Holland's toils home and away against these opponents in qualification for Euro 2012, and the pockmarked nature of the pitch, this was exposed as a mismatch from the opening exchanges. }}
discrepancy
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Noun
(discrepancies)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}