0 an unpleasant sound or combination of sounds: --
The language of a novel should fit the tone of the story - unless a sense of discordance is the intended effect.
The discordance between the play's bleak philosophy and its cheerful surface is interesting.
Perhaps this incident will allow us to move on from current political discordances.
"There is no discordance between this report and the president's position on climate," he claimed.
The third movement failed to impress me and came close to discordance in my ears.
The instrument was used to assess the current status of eating disorder related traits in patients and controls in order to get an additional estimate of discordance between the sisters.
More importantly, the recommendations may become obsolete because of discordance between the old and new evidence.
Conjugating the 'tenses' of function: discordance among hypothetical, experimental, and enacted function in older adults.
First, linear correlations between circulating parasite number and disease severity are almost never found: which immunological parameters mediate the discordance between parasitaemia and disease severity?
The degree of discordance is related to the grain-size and shape of the analysed zircons: the more discordant fractions contain larger, more elongate grains.
Patterns of discordance were associated with other aspects of functioning within different family subsystems.
Conjugating the ' tenses ' of function : discordance among hypothetical, experimental, and enacted function in older adults.
In the lumbar and cervical spine there is also marked discordance between symptoms and radiological osteoarthritis.