discordance en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Middle French discordance. By surface analysis, discord + -ance.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A state of being discordant; disagreement, inconsistency.
There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.
1832, [Isaac Taylor], chapter XVIII, in Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:To talk nonsense, or poetry, or the dash between the two, in a tone of profound sincerity, and to enunciate solemn discordances with received opinion so seriously as to convey the impression of a spiritual insight, is the peculiar gift by which monomaniacs, having first persuaded themselves, contrive to influence their neighbours, and through them to make conquest of a good half of the world, for good or for ill.
1859, George Meredith, chapter 15, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
- (countable, uncountable) Discordance of sounds; dissonance.
- (countable, uncountable) The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| discordaunce | alternative | lexicographic | |
| discordances | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
serodiscordance · nondiscordance · immunodiscordance · discordancy
Translations (8)
fi diskordanssi (state of discord) · es discordancia (state of discord) · bg дисхармония (music: lack of harmony) · fi eripuraisuus (state of discord) · fi yhteensopimattomuus (state of discord) · fi riitasointuisuus (music: lack of harmony) · bg несъответствие (state of discord) · fi dissonanssi (music: lack of harmony)