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disharmony

/dɪsˈhɑːməni/US/dɪsˈhɑɹməni/

disharmony noun: the absence of harmony or concordance.

Noun

disharmony (countable and uncountable, plural disharmonies)

  1. The absence of harmony or concordance.
    • It was then that they adopted the theory of an inevitable disharmony between the demands of Reason and the empirical world.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...
    • Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    inharmony, imbalance

disharmony meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

disharmony in Tamil

இசையில் சுருதி குலைதல், அபசுவரம், வேற்றுமை, விரோதம், பேதம், முரண்பாடு

disharmony in Bengali

disharmony, disagreement
বিরোধ birōdh

disharmony in Malayalam

friction, discord, strife
അപസ്വരം, അവസ്വരം, സ്വരചേർച്ചയില്ലായ്മ, യോജിപ്പില്ലായ്മ, സ്വരഭംഗം, അവക്വണം

disharmony in Kannada

ಮರುಬಗೆತ, ಜಗಳ

Synonyms of disharmony

Forms of disharmony

pluraldisharmonies

Origin of disharmony

From dis- + harmony.

Words that rhyme with disharmony

Questions about disharmony

What does disharmony mean?
Disharmony means the absence of harmony or concordance.
What is disharmony in Tamil?
Disharmony in Tamil is இசையில் சுருதி குலைதல், அபசுவரம், வேற்றுமை. See Disharmony meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is disharmony?
Disharmony is a noun.
How do you pronounce disharmony?
Disharmony is pronounced /dɪsˈhɑːməni/ (UK).
What is the plural of disharmony?
The plural of disharmony is disharmonies.

Words near disharmony in the dictionary

  1. disharmonisms
  2. disharmonize
  3. disharmonized
  4. disharmonizes
  5. disharmonizing
  6. disharmony
  7. disharness
  8. disharnessed
  9. disharnesses
  10. disharnessing
  11. Disharoon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disharmony (page history and authors); disharmony (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বিরোধ (Bengali) (page history and authors); disharmony (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); disharmony (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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