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inharmony en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈhɑːməni/ (UK)
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• /ɪnˈhɑɹməni/ (US)

Etymology

From in- + harmony.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Lack of harmony.
   • Tom Slater made a congratulatory speech—in reality, a mournful adjuration to avoid the pitfalls of matrimonial inharmony. 1912, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 22, in The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance:
   • 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? 1909, Ambrose Bierce, “What I Saw of Shiloh”, in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I:
   • In general, it is in exceeding bad taste to dye either lashes or brows, for it usually brings them into inharmony with the hair and features. 1876, Eliza Bisbee Duffey, Our Behaviour: A Manual of Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, Philadelphia:

Forms

Synonyms

disharmony