discordancy

American  

[dis-kawr-dn-see] / dɪsˈkɔr dn si /

noun

plural

discordancies

1. discordance.

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Etymology

Origin of discordancy

First recorded in 1600–10; discordance + -y ³

Example Sentences

The discordancy is so intriguing — like learning that Katharine Graham went to nude encounter sessions at Esalen, or Alan Greenspan was once in a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band.

From New York Times

Does knowledge of mortality have to create so much discordancy?

From Los Angeles Times

Most of all, though, you heard it in the discordancy of Donald Tusk’s response.

From The Guardian

The set was a living organism, emitting turmoil and images of chaos: when an old piano was played, its discordancy seemed to echo through the language; when Cumberbatch, as Hamlet, feigned madness, or became mad, the portraits on the walls seemed to glower at him.

From The New Yorker

The voices of the charioteers arguing about their race blended with the chatter of the jackdaws speckling the great west front of the Cathedral in a pleasant enough discordancy of sound that only accentuated the surrounding peacefulness.

From Project Gutenberg