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inharmony

noun
/ɪnˈhɑːməni/UK/ɪnˈhɑɹməni/US

Etymology

From in- + harmony.

  1. derived from *h₂er-✻ — “to join, fit, fix together”
  2. derived from ἁρμονία — “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”
  3. derived from harmonia
  4. derived from harmonie,armonie
  5. derived from armonye
  6. prefixed as inharmony — “in + harmony”

Definitions

  1. Lack of harmony.

    • In general, it is in exceeding bad taste to dye either lashes or brows, for it usually brings them into inharmony with the hair and features.
    • Here in the night stretches a wide and blasted field studded with half-extinct fires burning redly with I know not what presage of evil. . . . To what monstrous inharmony of death was it the visible prelude?
    • Tom Slater made a congratulatory speech—in reality, a mournful adjuration to avoid the pitfalls of matrimonial inharmony.

The neighborhood

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