Definition of Discord

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Discord

Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.

Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.

To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.

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Discord Quotations

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
Alan Watts

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Heraclitus

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
Sallust

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
Sallust

It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
Emanuel Celler

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
Alfred de Vigny

Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.
Robert Grosseteste

I am appalled at the state of discord in the field of climate science. There is no observational evidence that the addition of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have caused any temperature perturbations in the atmosphere.
George T. Wolff

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
Barry Cornwall

Discord Translations

discord in Italian is disaccordo
discord in Norwegian is disharmoni, uenighet, dissonans
discord in Spanish is discordia

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