discord

1 lack of agreement or harmony [syn: strife]

2 disagreement among those expected to cooperate [syn: dissension]

3 a harsh mixture of sounds [syn: discordance]

4 strife resulting from a lack of agreement [syn: discordance] v : be different from one another [syn: disagree, disaccord] [ant: match]

English

Noun

1. Lack of agreement among persons, groups, or things.
2. Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
3. A confused or harsh sound or mingling of sounds.
4. Music. An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.

Translations

• Finnish: epäsopu (1,2), riitasointu (3,4)
• German: Uneinigkeit , Streit (1); Missklang , Lärm (3); Dissonanz (4)
• Portuguese: discórdia

Related terms

• discordant
• Discordianism

Discord may refer to:

• Discord (goddess), another name for the Roman Goddess Discordia or Eris
• Discord, a fictional god character in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Young Hercules played by Meighan Desmond
• Dischord Records, a punk and alternative record label
• Discord (album), an album and single released by the punk rock band Bomb Factory
• A month in the Discordian calendar

See also

• Apple of Discord in Greek Mythology
• Discordant coastline in geology
• Discordianism, a chaos-centered religion founded in the 1950s

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