Discordia

[dis-kawr-dee-uh]

noun

1. the ancient Roman goddess of discord, identified with the Greek goddess Eris.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Discordia¹

< Latin: discord

Example Sentences

“Though I didn’t really set out to have this trajectory to my career. I wasn’t particularly interested in war and conflict when I began. But you find yourself having done a few stories and then more follow. It is hard to grasp and direct the way you want to go. But Discordia and the body of work I am engaged in are parts of that.”

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Many of the pictures he took in the Arab spring became a book called Discordia, an emotional, subjective response to the accepted narratives of those events.“Over these years,” Saman explained, of his book, “the many revolutions overlapped and in my mind became one blur, one story in itself. In order to tell this story the way I experienced it, I felt the need to transcend a linear journalistic language and instead create a new narrative that combined the multitude of voices, emotions and the lasting uncertainty I felt.”

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Discordia was a change of direction or a statement of intent.

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I walked along the sidewalk as the bright liveries of European shipping companies—Waberer’s, of Hungary; Amenda, of Germany; Finejas, of Lithuania; Discordia, of Bulgaria—buffeted past.

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The participants, who snapped up the tickets in two days after the event was announced in March, were able to strip down for the show Discordia, Daughter of the Night.

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