disharmony

  • 1Disharmony — Dis*har mo*ny, n. Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [R.] [1913 Webster] A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature]. Coleridge. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2disharmony — index conflict, contention (opposition), contest (dispute), controversy (argument), deviation …

    Law dictionary

  • 3disharmony — c.1600; see DIS (Cf. dis ) + HARMONY (Cf. harmony) …

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  • 4disharmony — [n] conflict, discord clash, contention, difference, disaccord, dissension, dissonance, dissonancy, friction, inharmoniousness, strife, variance; concepts 388,665 Ant. accord, agreement, compatibility, concord, harmony …

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  • 5disharmony — ► NOUN ▪ lack of harmony. DERIVATIVES disharmonious adjective disharmoniously adverb …

    English terms dictionary

  • 6disharmony — [dis här′mə nē] n. absence of harmony; discord disharmonious [dis΄här mō′nē əs] adj …

    English World dictionary

  • 7disharmony — n. to stir up disharmony * * * [ dɪs hɑːmənɪ] to stir up disharmony …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 8disharmony — [[t]dɪshɑ͟ː(r)məni[/t]] N UNCOUNT When there is disharmony, people disagree about important things and this causes an unpleasant atmosphere. [FORMAL] ...the root causes of racial disharmony. Syn: conflict Ant: harmony …

    English dictionary

  • 9disharmony — 1. The state of being deranged or lacking in orderliness. 2. In a complex sound, the absence of a mathematical relationship among the frequencies of the fundamental tone and its overtones so that the frequencies of the overtones are not whole… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 10disharmony — disharmonija statusas T sritis Kūno kultūra ir sportas apibrėžtis Nedarna, harmonijos priešybė. kilmė gr. dys – priešingumo priešdėlis + harmonija atitikmenys: angl. disharmony; dissonance vok. Disharmonie, f; Unstimmigkeit, f rus. дисгармония …

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