Noun: discord 'dis,kord
- Lack of agreement or harmony
"The discord between the two factions threatened to split the party";
- strife
- A conflict of people's opinions, actions or characters
"There was discord among the team members over the new strategy";
- disagreement, dissension, dissonance
- Lack of agreement or harmony; state of being discordant
"A discord between theory and experimental results";
- discordance
- A harsh mixture of sounds
"The discord of the factory machinery made it difficult to communicate";
- discordance
- Be different from one another
"Their accounts of the accident discorded significantly";
- disagree, disaccord [archaic]
Derived forms: discorded, discording, discords
Type of: conflict, differ, disagreement, disorder, dissonance
Encyclopedia: Discord