disharmony

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ harmony

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈhɑːməni/

Noun

disharmony (plural disharmonies)

1. The absence of harmony or concordance.
   • 2013, Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism (in The Guardian, 3 January 2013)[1]

     Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.

Synonyms

• inharmony (not as common)

Related terms

• disharmonic

Translations

the absence of harmony

• Bulgarian: разногласие (bg) n (raznoglasie), дисхармония (bg) f (disharmonija)
• Greek: δυσαρμονία (el) f (dysarmonía)
• Hebrew: דיסהרמוניה‏‎, חוסר התאמה‏‎, צרימות‏‎
• Norman: d'sharmonie f (Jersey)

• Portuguese: desarmonia (pt) f
• Romanian: dezacord (ro) n, discordanță (ro) f, dezarmonie f
• Swedish: disharmoni (sv) c, missljud (sv), oenighet (sv), gnissel (sv) n

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• hydramnios