inharmony

inharmony

English

Etymology

in- +‎ harmony

Noun

inharmony (countable and uncountable, plural inharmonies)

1. Lack of harmony.
   • 1909, Ambrose Bierce, "What I Saw of Shiloh" in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I:

     Here in the night stretches a wide and blasted field studded with half-extinct fires burning redly with I know not what presage of evil. . . . To what monstrous inharmony of death was it the visible prelude?

   • 1912, Rex Ellingwood Beach, The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance, ch. 22:

     Tom Slater made a congratulatory speech—in reality, a mournful adjuration to avoid the pitfalls of matrimonial inharmony.

Synonyms

• disharmony

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for inharmony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)