as in discordance
a lack of agreement or harmony
the discordancy between the film's flamboyant cinematography and its otherwise somber mood
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Recent Examples of discordancy
The discordancy is so intriguing — like learning that Katharine Graham went to nude encounter sessions at Esalen, or Alan Greenspan was once in a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band.
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New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discordancy
Noun
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The sport of off-roading suffers from a fundamental discordance: The desire to get out into nature and the irreparable harm inherent in the process of off-roading.—
Tim Stevens,
ArsTechnica,
25 July 2025
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Many of the tunes including sprawling intros and jam sessions, all melded together with discordance, reverb and instrumental solos.—
Audrey Gibbs,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Social discord, financial struggles, and conflicts abroad continue to consume our country’s time, energy and resources.—
Matthew Beddingfield,
Scientific American,
2 Aug. 2025
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Teammates jumped into the fray to helped quell the discord.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
29 July 2025
Noun
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Creativity without friction becomes an echo chamber.—
Stephanie Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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This creates massive friction for mainstream adoption.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Jai Joon Lee, a professor of business management at Sacramento State, said the industry’s strife is not limited to the Sacramento region, with breweries across the country struggling with fluctuating consumer demand for craft beer.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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In Together, the cracks start off a little smaller, with Brie’s Millie and Franco’s Tim grounded in the ordinary strife that comes from any long-term union.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
31 July 2025
Noun
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There’s a lot of just creating conflict in stories.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
6 Aug. 2025
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This is because subjective progress interpretations cause conflict.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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As an additional way to pressure the Russian Federation to end its war, Trump also announced that the United States will continue sending defense aid to Ukraine.—
Mark Temnycky,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The intent was to deprive the Kremlin of revenue to fund its war in Ukraine, forcing the Russian government either to sell its oil at a discount or divert money for a costly alternative shipping network.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Epstein controversy has created a schism between President Donald Trump and his MAGA base.—
Sudiksha Kochi,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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There remains a wide schism between customer data availability and leveraging customer information to deliver meaningful financial guidance.—
Jody Bhagat,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
Noun
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Busby makes not a single allusion, nor even a hint, at the wholesale destruction, misery and pain of not hundreds, but thousands of African-American families attributable to Hoover’s vicious stranglehold on the city’s South and West sides in the name of drug warfare for untold years.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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But even in the face of evolving modes of warfare, airpower’s inherent advantages endure.—
DAVID A. DEPTULA,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Discordancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discordancy. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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