discordant
adjEtymology
From Late Middle English discordaunt (“(adjective) not in accord or harmony; dissonant; (noun) element not in accord or harmony”), from Anglo-Norman descorda(u)nt, discorda(u)nt, Middle French descordant, discordant, and Old French descordant, discordant (“of people: quarrelsome; of things: in disagreement, at variance”) (modern French discordant), an adjective use of the present participle of descorder, discorder (“to fail to agree or harmonize, clash, disagree, discord”), from Latin discordāre, the present active infinitive of discordō (“to disagree, quarrel with”), from discors (“discordant, different, inharmonious”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Discors is derived from dis- (“prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’”) + cor (“heart; (figurative) mind; soul”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”)). By surface analysis, discord (noun) + -ant (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘exhibiting [the condition or process described by the noun]’).
- derived from discordāre
- derived from descordant
- derived from descordant
- derived from descordant
- inherited from discordaunt — “(adjective) not in accord or harmony; dissonant; (noun) element not in accord or harmony”
Definitions
Not in accord or harmony
Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.
- [T]hat vvhich vve call Conſcience is to be referred, namely, if by a due compariſon of things done vvith the rule, there be a conſonancy follovvs the ſentence Approbation; if diſcordant from it, the ſentence of Condemnation.
- Thy ſenate is a ſcene of civil jar, / Chaos of contrarieties at vvar, / VVhere ſharp and ſolid, phlegmatic and light, / Diſcordant atoms meet, ferment and fight, […]
Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment
Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features.
- Dikes may be discordant to country rock if they intrude at a high angle to the bedding.
Of two similar subjects, especially twins
Of two similar subjects, especially twins: differing in some characteristic.
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Ellipsis of serodiscordant (“of a couple
Ellipsis of serodiscordant (“of a couple: with one partner HIV positive and the other HIV negative”).
Of figures, etc.
Of figures, etc.: having opposite signs (for example, positive and negative).
A thing which is not in accord or harmony with one or more other things.
- In the process of dismemberment it must often happen that the true individuality of a soil is lost, so that schemes of laboratory classification sometimes arbitrarily separate agricultural similars and unite agricultural discordants.
The neighborhood
- neighbordiscord
- neighbordiscordance
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at discordant. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at discordant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at discordant
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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