discordancy

[ dis-kawr-dn-see ]

noun

, plural dis·cor·dan·cies.

1. discordance ( defs 1, 2, 3 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of discordancy¹

First recorded in 1600–10; discordance + -y ³

Example Sentences

The discordancy is so intriguing — like learning that Katharine Graham went to nude encounter sessions at Esalen, or Alan Greenspan was once in a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band.

From New York Times

Does knowledge of mortality have to create so much discordancy?

From Los Angeles Times

Most of all, though, you heard it in the discordancy of Donald Tusk’s response.

From The Guardian

The set was a living organism, emitting turmoil and images of chaos: when an old piano was played, its discordancy seemed to echo through the language; when Cumberbatch, as Hamlet, feigned madness, or became mad, the portraits on the walls seemed to glower at him.

From The New Yorker

The discordancy of religious opinions, and all of them taken from the doctrines as taught by Jesus and the apostles, each preacher referring to the favorite passages which support his views, is and will be, a never-ending theme of disputation; and at some future period, may renew the practice of burning each other alive for God’s glory.

From Project Gutenberg