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discordancy

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(dis kôrdn sē)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
dis•cor•dan•cy  (dis kôrdn sē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -cies. 
  1. discordance (defs. 1–3).
  • discordance + -y3 1600–10

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
dis•cord•ance  (dis kôrdns),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a discordant state;
    disagreement;
    discord.
  2. an instance of this.
  3. dissonance.
  4. Geologylack of parallelism between adjacent strata, as in an angular unconformity.
  5. Psychiatry(in genetic studies) the degree of dissimilarity in a pair of twins with respect to the presence or absence of a disease or trait.
  • Anglo-French discordaunce, descordance; see discord, -ance
  • Middle English 1300–50

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
discordance /dɪsˈkɔːdəns/, discordancy n
  1. an arrangement of rock strata in which the older underlying ones dip at a different angle from the younger overlying ones; unconformity
  2. lack of agreement or consonance
  3. variants of discord
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