different between disharmony vs unharmony

English

Etymology

dis- +? harmony

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?h??m?ni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?h?rm?ni/

Noun

disharmony (countable and uncountable, plural disharmonies)

1. The absence of harmony or concordance.
   • 2013, Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism (in The Guardian, 3 January 2013)[1]

     Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.

   Synonym: (not as common) inharmony

Related terms

• disharmonic

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• hydramnios

English

Etymology

From un- +? harmony.

Noun

unharmony (uncountable)

1. Lack or absence of harmony; disharmony; (by extension) discord; chaos
   • 1894, The Primitive Methodist Magazine - Volume 75 - Page 846:

     That unharmony between God and human life is a possible experience to human life, requires no argument, and that, as a fact of human knowledge, [...]

   • 1917, The North American Review - Volume 206 - Page 103:

     Chaos is absolute unharmony, and unharmony must struggle for harmony.

   • 2012, David Savat, The Uncoding the Digital: Technology, Subjectivity and ... - Page 59:

     It is in the moments of unharmony that the possibilities for constituting oneself, for folding the force as it were (Deleuze 1995), exist.