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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