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unharmony

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ harmony.

Noun

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unharmony (uncountable)

  1. Lack or absence of harmony; disharmony; (by extension) discord; chaos
    • 1894, The Primitive Methodist Magazine, volume 75, page 846:
      That unharmony between God and human life is a possible experience to human life, requires no argument, and that, as a fact of human knowledge, [...]
    • 1917, The North American Review, volume 206, page 103:
      Chaos is absolute unharmony, and unharmony must struggle for harmony.
    • 2012, David Savat, The Uncoding the Digital: Technology, Subjectivity and ... - Page 59:
      It is in the moments of unharmony that the possibilities for constituting oneself, for folding the force as it were (Deleuze 1995), exist.