inharmony

noun

(ˌ)in-ˈhär-mə-nē How to pronounce inharmony (audio)
Definition of inharmonynext
as in discord
a lack of agreement or harmony a striking inharmony between the evangelist's professed spiritual concerns and his materialistic pleasures

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  1. discord
  2. strife
  3. friction
  4. discordance
  5. conflict
  6. war
  7. schism
  8. warfare
Noun
  • However, Barnier's austerity plan—which includes €40 billion ($42 billion) in spending cuts and €20 billion ($21 billion) in new taxes—has heightened tensions, fueling discord in the National Assembly and precipitating the current political crisis.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • This internal discord is music to Kitson’s ears, whose goal is to have Irish Republicans murder each other.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of discord
Noun
  • While a tie in a national election might cause a constitutional meltdown — and who knows what kind of civil strife — the officials of this small town north of Eureka had a simple solution: pick a name from a box.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Argentina’s retirees are perhaps the most potent symbol of the strife inflicted by Mr. Milei’s fiscal shock.
    Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of strife
Noun
  • Additionally, the band was recently dropped from Austria’s Nova Rock Festival 2025 lineup, fueling speculation about ongoing friction between the band and European promoters.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2024
  • That friction could then result in a merger within 100 million years, solving the final-parsec problem.
    Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
Definition of friction
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  • Unlike their countrymen in the contemporary tropicalia movement (Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes), the Minas Gerais musicians favored languid drift and golden melody over genre-busting and discordance, and Lo Borges is as good an album as the moment produced.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2024
  • The lengthy obituaries detailed my career accomplishments and deep ties to family and friends with the uncanny discordance of an AI bot.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
Definition of discordance
Noun
  • Today, predicting the future has only gotten harder—in the wake of a global pandemic, ongoing geo-political instability and conflict, and the rapid emergence of new disruptive technologies like generative artificial intelligence.
    Michael Hudson, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The district has also reported a decline in student suspensions overall and conflicts related to social media, such as bullying.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of conflict
Noun
  • Believe me, that one taxi drive home under one of the biggest missile strikes during the war will remain with me as a reminder forever.
    Vera Petryk, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • That marked a shift from his prior advocacy of a weaker dollar to fight trade wars and the Chinese yuan quickly slipped to a three-month trough at 7.2662 pre-dollar CNY=, while the Indian rupee INR=IN hit record lows.
    Wayne Cole, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of war
Noun
  • To arrive at this integration, however, he must be stripped, like Voss, of his own pretensions and the schisms within his self.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Attending the new pope is a revelation that really could throw the church into open schism.
    Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of schism
Noun
  • Russia’s war on Ukraine Russia, in their war against Ukraine, has been manipulating information and spreading disinformation online as a means of information warfare, including by the use of AI and deepfake.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • In Wednesday’s attack, according to Moscow, Russian air defenses shot down two of the missiles, while electronic warfare equipment deflected the others.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of warfare
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