Dictionary Entry
discordance
Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/dih-sawr-kuhns/Word FrequencyUncommon (2.76)Curriculum FrequencyLess common (1)A state of discord.
In a Sentence
“The discordance between the two reports made it hard to decide which was accurate.”
Published Usage Examples
“The divergent scales of values scream in discordance, they dazzle and daze us, and in order that it might not be painful we steer clear of all other values, as though from insanity, as though from illusion, and we confidently judge the whole world according to our own home values.”
“Since then there are some imaginations which may, and others which may not be rejected, it is lawful for us to retain our assent concerning them, though there were no other cause but this discordance, which is sufficient to work in us a suspicion of things, as having nothing certain and assured, but being altogether fu”
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Origin
Late Middle English from Old French discordance, from Latin discordare ‘to disagree’.
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Poetry examples for “discordance”
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