discordance
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- discordaunce (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Middle French discordance.
Noun edit
discordance (countable and uncountable, plural discordances)
- A state of being discordant; disagreement, inconsistency.
- 1832, [Isaac Taylor], chapter XVIII, in Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
- There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.
- 1859, George Meredith, chapter 15, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →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.
- Discordance of sounds; dissonance.
- (genetics) The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
state of discord
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music: lack of harmony
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
discordance f (plural discordances)
Further reading edit
- “discordance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.