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Webster 1913 Edition
Discrepancy
{
Dis-crep′ance
(?; 277)
, Dis-crep′an-cy
, }Noun.
pl.
-ances
(#)
, -ancies
(#)
. The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety.
There hath been ever a
discrepance
of vesture of youth and age, men and women. Sir T. Elyot.
There is no real
discrepancy
between these two genealogies. G. S. Faber.
Webster 1828 Edition
Discrepancy
DISCREPANCE
, DISCREPANCY,Noun.
There is no real discrepancy between these tow genealogies.
Definition 2024
discrepancy
discrepancy
English
Noun
discrepancy (plural discrepancies)
- An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
- 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
- WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
- They found a discrepancy between the first set of test results and the second, and they're still trying to figure out why.
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- The state or quality of being discrepant.
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:discrepancy.
Synonyms
- (inconsistency): conflict, contrariety, deviation, difference, disagreement, disparity, divergence, incompatibility, inconsistency, mismatch, variance, variation, dissimilarity, anomaly
- (discrepant state): discordance, anomalous
Translations
inconsistency
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discrepant state
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