Crossword clues for discordance
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discordance \Dis*cord"ance\, Discordancy \Dis*cord"an*cy\, n. State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.
There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.
--I. Taylor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c.; see discord (v.) + -ance.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A state of discord. 2 (context music English) Lack of harmony; dissonance. 3 (context genetics English) The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins). n. 1 A state of discord. 2 (context music English) Lack of harmony; dissonance. 3 (context genetics English) The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).
WordNet
Usage examples of "discordance".
But there would be nothing, beyond the increasing discordance of a craft being shattered by crude convection.
That final period of expansion is called by the Ekhat themselves, depending on which of the factions is speaking, either the Melodious Epoch, the Discordance, or by a phrase which is difficult to translate but might loosely be called the Absent Orchestration of Right Harmony.
As always, it affected him profoundly—and more so this time, because the shock of discordance had made him vulnerable.
As always, it affected him profoundly-and more so this time, because the shock of discordance had made him vulnerable.
Now if, as must be the fact in this discordance of opinion, the greater part are in error, and are honest in it, then it follows that our mind embraces falsehood as it does truth.
We heard discordances music, night laughter, and somebody firing his fifty-six shooter on television.
The noise reached a plateau, one pure note made of a succession of discordances, and then, for just the fraction of a second, the voices split away, each along a vector .
In the comparatively early state of human advancement in which we now live, a person cannot indeed feel that entireness of sympathy with all others, which would make any real discordance in the general direction of their conduct in life impossible.
The siren's discordance chewed away at her nerves until she was tapping her foot with impatience, mentally urging Bisman to hurry and get out of there.