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discordance

noun

Etymology

From Middle French discordance. By surface analysis, discord + -ance.

  1. derived from discordance

Definitions

  1. A state of being discordant

    A state of being discordant; disagreement, inconsistency.

    • There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.

  2. Discordance of sounds

    Discordance of sounds; dissonance.

  3. The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical…

    The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at discordance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at discordance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at discordance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA