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English
Etymology
From in- + harmony.
Pronunciation
Noun
inharmony (countable and uncountable, plural inharmonies)
- 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, chapter 22, in The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance:Tom Slater made a congratulatory speech—in reality, a mournful adjuration to avoid the pitfalls of matrimonial inharmony.
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