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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesdiscordância
Pronunciation / Transliteration: dis-kor-dãn-syah
"A discordância entre as partes persistiu durante toda a reunião."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
Disagreement, lack of harmony, or inconsistency between facts, figures, or opinions.
"There was a striking discordance between the company's stated ethical policies and its actual business practices." - 2
In geology or medicine, a lack of correspondence, structural alignment, or similarity between strata, symptoms, or test results.
"The study noted a clinical discordance in symptom presentation between male and female patients."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Latin 'discordantia', stemming from 'dis-' (apart, away) and 'cord-' (heart), indicating a divergence of hearts or minds. Entering Middle English via Old French in the 14th century, the term originally referred to musical dissonance and disagreement, later expanding to include geological and medical contexts denoting lack of conformity or alignment.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Discordance" is said worldwide
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discordance
Transliteration: dis-kor-dãs
"Il existe une discordance entre les deux rapports."
Diskordanz
Transliteration: dɪskɔʁˈdant͡s
"Die Diskordanz der Ergebnisse überraschte die Forscher."
discordanza
Transliteration: dis-kor-dan-tsa
"Notarono una forte discordanza nei dati raccolti."
discordancia
Transliteration: dis-kor-dan-sja
"La discordancia de criterios dificultó el acuerdo."
discordância
Transliteration: dis-kor-dãn-syah
"A discordância entre as partes persistiu durante toda a reunião."
असहमति
Transliteration: asahmati
Script: हिंदी देवनागरी
"दोनों बयानों में स्पष्ट असहमति थी।"
不一致
Transliteration: bù yī zhì
Script: 中文汉字
"这两组数据之间存在明显的 không一致。"
부조화
Transliteration: bujohwa
Script: 한국어 한글
"두 이론 사이에는 심각한 부조화가 존재합니다."
不一致
Transliteration: fuicchi
Script: 日本語
"証言の間に微妙な不一致が見つかった。"
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