Discordance

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  • noun. The state or an instance of disagreement; discord.
  • noun. The presence of a given trait in only one member of a pair of identical twins.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being discordant; disagreement; opposition; inconsistency.
  • noun. Discord of sound.
  • noun. In geology, a lack of parallelism or complete conformity in associated strata.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A state of discord.
  • noun. Lack of harmony; dissonance.
  • noun. The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a harsh mixture of sounds
  • noun. strife resulting from a lack of agreement
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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