disharmony
/dɪsˈhɑːməni
/noun [mass noun]
Lack of harmony or agreement: we will become evermore a nation of social disharmony...
- On the other hand, disharmony or lack of cooperation among these institutions caused the regular army enormous difficulties.
- In the absence of the spirit of free inquiry and free enterprise, slowly but surely we are heading towards greater social disharmony.
- The soaring apartment prices are also causing serious social disharmony between the haves and have-nots.
Synonyms
discord, friction, strife, conflict, hostility, acrimony, bad blood, bad feeling, enmity, dissension, disagreement;
feuding, quarrelling;
disunity, division, divisiveness
informal falling-out
rare disaccord, discordance
Derivatives
disharmonious
/ adjective ...- They may appear to be made of unrelated, disharmonious abstract forms.
- Speakers are obsessively looking into the past to make the disharmonious present intelligible, and they are themselves caught between worlds they cannot fully comprehend.
- The disharmonious associations of plants and animals all over the Northern Hemisphere during the ice age are evidence of this equable climate.
disharmoniously
- Most offensive is the poor selection of songs - it's a sensory invasion that falls disharmoniously flat.
- I have no doubts that comedy will ramp up again, fully and just as disharmoniously as ever.
- In several places, the verses are split disharmoniously and the inappropriate use of letters impedes uninterrupted reading and understanding.
disharmonize
- unmarketed
- unmarred
- unmarriable
- unmarriage
- unmarriageable
- non-enzymatic
- non-enzymic
- none other than
- non-equilibrium
- non-erotic
- nones
- none-so-pretty
- non esse
- non-essence
- non-essential
- non est
- non est factum
- non est inventus
- nonesuch
- Nonesuch chest
- Nonesuch ornament
- nonet
- none the less
- nonetheless
- none the worse for