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discord noun

• disagreement between people.
• "a prosperous family who showed no signs of discord"
Similar: strife, conflict, friction, hostility, disagreement, lack of agreement, dissension, dispute, difference of opinion, discordance, disunity, division, incompatibility, variance, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, opposition, bad feeling, ill feeling, bad blood, argument, quarrelling, squabbling, bickering, wrangling, feuding, contention, clashing, falling-out, war, vendetta, jar, disaccord,
Opposite: agreement, accord, harmony,
• lack of harmony between notes sounding together.
• "the music faded in discord"
Similar: dissonance, discordance, lack of harmony, disharmony, cacophony, jarring, jangling,
Opposite: harmony,

discord verb

• (of people) disagree.
• "we discorded commonly on two points"
Origin: Middle English: from Old French descord (noun), descorder (verb), from Latin discordare, from discors ‘discordant’, from dis- (expressing negation, reversal) + cor, cord- ‘heart’.


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