0 an unpleasant sound or combination of sounds:
The third movement failed to impress me and came close to discordance in my ears.
"There is no discordance between this report and the president's position on climate," he claimed.
Perhaps this incident will allow us to move on from current political discordances.
The discordance between the play's bleak philosophy and its cheerful surface is interesting.
The language of a novel should fit the tone of the story - unless a sense of discordance is the intended effect.
The piece consists of standard avant-garde discordance.
We want a society in which discordances can be peacefully accommodated.
There is a great discordance between the skill of the craftsman and the bad taste of the finished ornament.
This alternation between anarchy and precision sparks some pleasing discordances.
The results indicate that the transition to ribbing is an imperfect bifurcation due t o end effects, and clarify earlier discordances in the literature.
What are the other elements which produce oscillations or discordances in the process of production?
Shuffling the offspring: uncoupling and spatial discordance of multiple stages in vertebrate seed dispersal.
