Discord vs. Dissension — What's the Difference?

Lack of agreement among persons, groups, or things.

Difference of opinion; disagreement.

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

An act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.

A confused or harsh sound or mingling of sounds.

Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.

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

Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.

To fail to agree or harmonize; clash.

Disagreement among those expected to cooperate

Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.

A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

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

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

Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.

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

To untie things which are connected by a cord.

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.

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.

To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.

Lack of agreement or harmony

Disagreement among those expected to cooperate

A harsh mixture of sounds

Strife resulting from a lack of agreement

Be different from one another