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Conflict vs. Discord — What's the Difference?

Conflict vs. Discord — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Conflict and Discord

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Conflict

A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one
The eternal conflict between the sexes
Doctors often come into conflict with politicians

Discord

Lack of agreement among persons, groups, or things.

Conflict

Be incompatible or at variance; clash
The date for the match conflicted with a religious festival
Parents' and children's interests sometimes conflict

Discord

Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.

Conflict

A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.
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Discord

A confused or harsh sound or mingling of sounds.

Conflict

A state of disagreement or disharmony between persons or ideas; a clash
A conflict over water rights.

Discord

(Music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.

Conflict

(Psychology) An emotional or mental disturbance resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.

Discord

To fail to agree or harmonize; clash.

Conflict

Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially when motivating or shaping the action of the plot.

Discord

Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.

Conflict

To be in or come into opposition; differ.

Discord

Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.

Conflict

(Archaic) To engage in warfare.

Discord

(music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.

Conflict

A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
The conflict between the government and the rebels began three years ago.

Discord

Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.

Conflict

An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
I wanted to attend the meeting but there's a conflict in my schedule that day.

Discord

To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.

Conflict

(intransitive) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible

Discord

To untie things which are connected by a cord.

Conflict

(intransitive) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
It appears that our schedules conflict.

Discord

Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; - applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.

Conflict

A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

Discord

Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds m ing.

Conflict

A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
As soon as he [Atterbury] was himself again, he became eager for action and conflict.
An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

Discord

To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
The one discording with the other.

Conflict

To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.
Fire and water conflicting together.

Discord

Lack of agreement or harmony

Conflict

To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.
A man would be content to . . . conflict with great difficulties, in hopes of a mighty reward.

Discord

Disagreement among those expected to cooperate

Conflict

To be in opposition; to be contradictory.
The laws of the United States and of the individual States may, in some cases, conflict with each other.

Discord

A harsh mixture of sounds

Conflict

An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph
Police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs

Discord

Strife resulting from a lack of agreement

Conflict

Opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings;
He was immobilized by conflict and indecision

Discord

Be different from one another

Conflict

A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;
Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
He lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement

Conflict

A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests;
His conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post
A conflict of loyalties

Conflict

An incompatibility of dates or events;
He noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings

Conflict

Opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot);
This form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing

Conflict

A disagreement or argument about something important;
He had a dispute with his wife
There were irreconcilable differences
The familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats

Conflict

Be in conflict;
The two proposals conflict!

Conflict

Go against, as of rules and laws;
He ran afould of the law
This behavior conflicts with our rules

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