Discordance - English meaning

noun

Lack of agreement or consistency.

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The discordance between sales and evidence should be a focus

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The quality of sounding harsh and jarring because of a lack of harmony.

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Fast songs can go through slow phases, and minor keys and discordance may be employed

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The occurrence of a trait or disease in only one member of a matched pair of subjects, especially twins.

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Relatively high rates of discordance among identical twins clearly point to the importance of addit…

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An unpleasant sound or combination of sounds

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The third movement failed to impress me and came close to discordance in my ears., "there is no dis…

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A disagreement, or the quality of not being in agreement with something or someone else

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Discordance between "there is no discordance between this report and the president's position on cl…

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The quality of looking or sounding different or wrong compared with other things, or an example of this

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Discordance between the discordance between the play's bleak philosophy and its cheerful surface is…