Word Meanings - DISCOMPOSITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inconsistency; discordance. Donne.

Related words: (words related to DISCOMPOSITION)

• INCONSISTENCY
  1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between
• DONNEE
  Lit., given; hence, in a literary work, as a drama or tale, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story. W. E. Henley. That favorite romance donnée of the heir kept out of his own. Saintsbury.
• DISCORDANCE; DISCORDANCY
  State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.
• CORDONNET
  Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc. McElrath.