disharmony

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ harmony

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈhɑːməni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈhɑrməni/

Noun

disharmony (countable and uncountable, 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.

   Synonym: inharmony (not as common)

Related terms

• disharmonic

Translations

the absence of harmony

• Bulgarian: разногла́сие (bg) n (raznoglásie), дисхармо́ния (bg) f (disharmónija)
• Finnish: epäsopu (fi), epäsointu, disharmonia
• French: dysharmonie (fr) f, désharmonie (fr) f, désaccord (fr) m
• German: Disharmonie (de) f
• Greek: δυσαρμονία (el) f (dysarmonía)
• Hebrew: דיסהרמוניה‎ ?, חוסר התאמה‎ ?, צרימות‎ ?
• Manx: mee-vingys f (music), neuchordailys m

• Norman: d'sharmonie f (Jersey)
• Polish: dysharmonia (pl) f
• Portuguese: desarmonia (pt) f
• Romanian: dezacord (ro) n, discordanță (ro) f, dezarmonie f
• Russian: дисгармо́ния (ru) f (disgarmónija), разногла́сие (ru) n (raznoglásije)
• Swedish: disharmoni (sv) c, missljud (sv) n, oenighet (sv) c, gnissel (sv) n

References

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

Anagrams

• hydramnios