discord
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
discord
▶noun /ˈdɪskɔːd/
- 1 lack of agreement or harmony.
- 2 Music lack of harmony between notes sounding together.
■ a chord which is regarded as displeasing or requiring resolution by another.
■ any interval except unison, an octave, a perfect fifth or fourth, a major or minor third and sixth, or their octaves.
– origin ME: from OFr. descord (n.), descorder (v.), from L. discordare, from discors ‘discordant’, from dis- (expressing negation) + cor, cord- ‘heart’.
'discord' also found in these Oxford entries:
amicable
- dissension
- distance
- preparation
- prepare
- resolution
- resolve
- shit-stirrer
- suspension
- unpleasantness
- unpleasantry
