Noun

(en noun)

The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.

* 1638 , Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique :

(figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.

* (rfdate) :

The seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe.

* 1950 , Elizabeth Janeway, in Helen Hull (editor), The Writer’s Book :

In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.

(astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.

The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth.

(beekeeping, archaic) An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.

Noun

(discrepancies)

An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}

The state or quality of being discrepant.