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harmony
English
Etymology
First attested in 1602. From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie/armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h??m?ni/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??m?ni/
- Homophone: hominy (god-guard merger and weak vowel merger)
Noun
harmony (countable and uncountable, plural harmonies)
- Agreement or accord.
- December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk
- America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.
- December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk
- A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
- (music) The academic study of chords.
- (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
- (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
- A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.
- a harmony of the Gospels
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Further reading
- harmony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- harmony in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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similarity
English
Etymology
From French similarité.
Morphologically similar +? -ity
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?m??læ??ti/
- Rhymes: -æ??ti
Noun
similarity (countable and uncountable, plural similarities)
- Closeness of appearance to something else.
- (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
- Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.
- (mathematics) A transformation that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
Synonyms
- resemblance
Antonyms
- difference
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See also
- likeness
- alikeness
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