discrepancyn.
/dᵻˈskrɛpnsi/, U.S. /dᵻˈskrɛpənsi/ 1. The quality or fact of being discrepant; lack of agreement; inconsistency, variance.In early use also with the sense ‘difference’ without implication of disagreement or inconsistency.In quot. 1579: the action of making something different; alteration, change.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > [noun] > a change
changec1325
skiftc1400
alterationa1529
discrepancy1579
transit1652
traverse1692
chop and change1760
volte1901
switch1920
switch-over1928
the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun]
diversitya1340
difference1340
variancec1374
distancea1382
unlikenessa1387
variationc1405
discrepation?a1425
distinction1435
severaltyc1449
unlikelinessc1450
dissemblance1463
unlikelihood1483
alteritya1500
indifferencec1503
discrepancea1522
dissimilitude1532
differency1542
variety1552
discernment1570
disparitya1575
discrepancy1579
otherness1587
discernance1592
imparity1608
disanalogy1610
disresemblance1622
dislikeness1623
diff1624
inconformity1625
irresemblance1628
variousness1628
odds1642
disparation1654
aliety1656
disparility1656
disparateness1659
severality1664
nonconformity1672
unconformableness1712
dissimilarity1715
differentness1727
differ1787
allogeneitya1834
otherwiseness1890
otherliness1937
diversion-
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun]
discordance1340
variancec1374
discorda1387
disconvenience?a1425
unsuingc1425
disaccordancec1436
unaccordancec1449
inconveniencec1460
discrepancea1464
difformness1547
disagreeance1548
disagreeing1548
jar1548
disagreement1551
disagreeableness1570
dissonancy1584
discordancy1587
discoherencea1600
disconveniency1601
disharmonya1602
dissent1603
dissonancea1604
incongruency1604
incongruence1610
incongruity1612
discongruity1624
inconformity1625
discorrespondencya1641
inconsonancy1650
inconsistence1651
dissidy1657
unagreeableness1658
discomposure1659
disconsonancy1659
uncorrespondency1659
inconveniency1662
unconsonancy1665
incorrespondence1667
oddness1680
inconsistency1699
incongruousness1727
irreconcilementa1737
discrepancy1748
incoincidence?1798
inaccordance1808
inconsonance1811
inaccordancy1817
incorrespondency1817
cacophony1831
divergence1837
disaccord1871
1579 T. Pritchard Schoole Honest & Vertuous Lyfe iii. 21 Change of yeares, requireth discrepancy of manners, and alteration of condicions.
1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 147 There is..discrepancie of opinion among Divines both old and new.
1664 J. Owen Vindic. Animadversions Fiat Lux vi. 101 I wish you would now tell me, what discrepancy there is between the Assertion which I ascribed unto you, and that which your self here avow.
1748 J. Geddes Ess. Composition Antients i. 13 Who again is not offended with discrepancy and discord?
1776 D. Shaw Compar. View Several Methods promoting Relig. Instr. II. 118 The seemingly inconsistent variety, or discrepancy that is sometimes to be seen in the conduct of man.
1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. II. vii. iv. 186 Their discrepancy, as to quantity, was considerable.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. 576 There is little or no discrepancy as to the facts.
1947 Billboard 13 Sept. 13/2 Just how much discrepancy there is between the ‘C’ standard of the FCC engineers and the Mutual base is impossible to say.
1976 A. Campbell et al. Quality Amer. Life 511 Some discrepancy can be attributed to sampling variability.
2010 M. Evans-Andris Changing for Good v. 109 There's a lot of discrepancy between the people who are gung ho on it and the people who aren't.
2. An instance of this; an inconsistency.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > inconsistency or contradiction > an instance of being inconsistent
discrepancy1583
contradiction1608
inconsistency1647
inconsistent1652
inconsistence1655
counter-example1809
disconnect1982
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. I.3 How can all these contrarieties & discripancies agree togither in one body at one & the same time?
1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket i. 25 These are the similitudes. I could also fit you with some discrepancies.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 277 It would..be evinced from these two seeming discrepancies.
1722 A. Cooper Ess. Chronol. World 4 Of old, there was a Discrepancy of the Civil Annual Period among divers Nations, some making it to consist of more or fewer Days than was allowed by others.
1794 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity I. i. ix. 313 Eusebius..wrote expressly upon the discrepancies observable in the gospels.
1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. iv. ii. 512 Discrepancies between thoughts and facts.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues III. 562 Some discrepancies may be observed between the mythology of the Politicus and the Timaeus.
1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan vii. 107 Though none of these statements agreed with Kaviri's,..Tarzan was in no manner surprised at the discrepancies.
1965 Language 41 529 Only very rarely is there a discrepancy between the Pashto examples and the English translation.
2011 M. Kahn Tahiti beyond Postcard 14 I was struck by a glaring discrepancy between two types of images and the purposes they served.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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