Discordances

Word DISCORDANCES
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Definitions and meanings of "Discordances"

What do we mean by discordances?

A state of discord.

Lack of harmony; dissonance.

The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).

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The word "discordances" in example sentences

The holistic result is a nicely technical, sophisticated look without the discordances of shiny stuff that made the previous design hard to take seriously. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

In contrast, the high discordances in some monozygotic twins, particularly for schizophrenia, are telling us something about origins -- that something is happening during fetal development that can trump genome identity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What if it turned out that Stravinsky wrote the Rite of Spring (which contains some highly unusual harmonies and discordances) while using it? ❋ Unknown (2007)

If discordances in monozygotic twins for psychosis imply that environmental differences are involved, the discordance may be caused by epigenetic differences. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That solution was what he called a metanomical society, a planetary society in which discordances could be peacefully accommodated in creative tension. ❋ Cristaudo, Wayne (2008)

I, a thousand-fold more insignificant than he, may I not have discordances of character, and make friendship a burden heavy indeed to bear? ❋ Unknown (2007)

In reality, the Electoral College divide grows out of discordances over the fundamentals of social life: marriage and children. ❋ Steve Sailer (2005)

The sound of so many voices united by the distance into one harmony, and freed from those harsh discordances which jar the ear when heard more near, combining with the murmuring brook, and the wind which sung among the old firs, affected me with a sense of sublimity. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He appeared to be a scribe of its events and social discordances. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And with a clangor of discordances, the music, their music, stuttered to a halt and died. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)

The only "sound" was the one of the spell that took her power, a jangle of discordances like the music of mad minstrels. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1991)

And I believe that these discordances are bound to increase. ❋ Bell, Daniel (1974)

It contains the highest and deepest truths in Human Physiology, with their individual and social application; the true nature and hidden causes of disease; the condition of health, physical and passional; all that information which every human being needs, which few dare to ask for, or know how to obtain, but which, amid the discordances of civilization, is of priceless value. ❋ P. R. Kincaid (N/A)

I boldly assert everywhere, that men and women should not live together in daily inharmony, and give birth to children to inherit and perpetuate their angularities and discordances. ❋ Harriet A. Adams (N/A)

Chaucer knew this, and was concerned about it; he was anxious about those differences of tongue, of orthography, and of vocabulary; he did all in his power to regularise these discordances; he had set ideas on the subject; and, what was rare in those days, the whims of copyists made him shudder. ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)

In the distance, discordances that once jarred painfully on our ears are now undistinguishable -- lost in the music sweet and solemn, that comes from afar with the sound of a great man's name. ❋ Various (N/A)

If the _fac simile_ is correct, there are discordances in the evidence which raise a suspicion in my mind, a suspicion not that the witnesses are perjuring themselves, but that they had not sufficient means of knowledge upon the subject; and that you are called upon to convict this gentleman of a base and infamous crime, from which, except from the evidence of Le ❋ William Brodie Gurney (N/A)

From this point of view, the discordances of which nature offers us the spectacle are singularly weakened. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

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