discordancy
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of discordancy
First recorded in 1600–10; discordance + -y 3
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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 • Nov. 17, 2021
"The idea is to explore romantic loss, with its underlying discordancy and stress," says Wheeldon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence the sad discordancy of so many of the spiritual judgments of human beings; a discordancy which will be brought home to us acutely enough before these lectures end.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William
It throws a fatality on that marriage which seems unnatural even to those who yet do not suspect that the discordancy lies deeper than in the complexion.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various
In such a discordancy of sentiments it is better to look to the nature of things than to the humors of men.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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