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discord

(n): lack of agreement or harmony

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(n): a disturbance of the peace or of public order

(n): disagreement among those expected to cooperate

(n): the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing

(n): a harsh mixture of sounds

(n): disagreeable sounds

(n): strife resulting from a lack of agreement

(n): bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension

(v): be different from one another

(v): have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

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10 months ago skipvia said:

Interesting. I'm a musician and I have never made that association before. There's certainly no etymological relationship. I checked online for references to "dischordant" and apparently there is an instrumental called "DHA (Dischordant Harmonic Abuse)," clearly a play on the implied relationship.

10 months ago seanahan said:

While applicable to music, it appears to have no etymological relationship to chord.

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