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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disharmony
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Racial disharmony is what makes the news; when people get along, we don't hear about it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At least you are starting with a breeding pair, but even so you may experience some disharmony.
▪ Celebrating such events now may lead only to social disharmony and resentment.
▪ Disease is literally dis-ease, a state of disharmony and imbalance on one or other, or more, of these levels.
▪ From either end of the plaza blaring phonographs played in disharmony.
▪ In the 1960s this preoccupation gave way to an urgent need to consider domestic problems such as racial disharmony and poverty.
▪ What was a contribution to harmony in one context could become a support for disharmony in another set of circumstances.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disharmony

Disharmony \Dis*har"mo*ny\, n. Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [R.]

A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature].
--Coleridge.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disharmony

c.1600; see dis- + harmony.

Wiktionary
disharmony

n. The absence of harmony or concordance.

WordNet
disharmony

n. a lack of harmony [syn: inharmoniousness]

Wikipedia
Disharmony (Angel)

"Disharmony" is episode 17 of season 2 in the television show Angel.

Usage examples of "disharmony".

None of them grew very close together, and the spaces between were filled with an astonishing variety of mushroomlike things, whose vivid coloring, red, yellow, violet, and orange, jarred upon the eye in a disharmony of which nature is very seldom guilty.

A great deal was being written nationally about racial disharmony in big-city police forces, notably the Los Angeles Police Department, where ugly discrimination against blacks, both on and off the force, had had semiofficial approval from the top over many years.

Truly all the trouble in the world came from the manifold disharmonies of the self-conscious animal called Man!

We singers of the world, who shrink from disharmony, may choose silence instead of noise, and not always rightly.

The devoted lunatics of the radical fringe were convinced the station’s slow infall was no accident of physics, but a carefully calculated approach, perhaps in the hands of humans secretly left aboard, or instructions secretly relayed from Mospheira, now that they knew about computer controls, which would end with the station descending in a blazing course across the skies, ‘disturbing the ethers to disharmony and violence,’ and creating hurricanes and tidal waves, as its weapons rained fire down on atevi civilization and placed atevi forever under human domination.

All their former disharmony and her own jealousy recurred to her mind.