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discordaunce

discordaunce is the obsolete form of discordance.

Meaning of discordance

Noun

discordance (countable and uncountable, plural discordances)

  1. A state of being discordant; disagreement, inconsistency.
    • There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.1832, [Isaac Taylor], chapter XVIII, in Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC
  2. Discordance of sounds; dissonance.
  3. The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).

Forms of discordaunce

pluraldiscordaunces

Questions about discordaunce

What is discordaunce the obsolete form of?
Discordaunce is the obsolete form of discordance.

Words near discordaunce in the dictionary

  1. discordancies
  2. discordancy
  3. discordant
  4. discordantly
  5. discordantness
  6. discordaunce
  7. discordaunces
  8. discordaunt
  9. discorded
  10. discordent
  11. discordful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: discordaunce (page history and authors); discordance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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