discrepancy
Meaning of discrepancy
- an illogical or surprising lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts.
there's a discrepancy between your account and his
early 17th century: from Latin discrepantia, from discrepare ‘be discordant’, from dis- ‘apart, away’ + crepare ‘to creak’.
Information about discrepancy
- It is a name.
- The plural form of discrepancy is: discrepancies.
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Hyphenation of discrepancy
dis-crep-ancy
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- discrepancy is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
discrepancy synonyms
Meaning disagreement:
disagreement, divergence, variance
Meaning variance:
Meaning the fact or state of being inconsistent:
Meaning a point or way in which people or things are dissimilar:
Meaning a great difference:
Meaning a change or slight difference in condition, amount, or level, typically within certain limits:
Meaning the action of departing from an established course or accepted standard:
Meaning difference; variance:
Meaning dissimilarity or diversity:
Meaning a failure to correspond or match; a discrepancy:
Meaning contrary opposition:
Meaning lack of agreement or harmony:
Meaning lack of agreement or consistency:
Meaning the state of being incongruous; incompatibility:
Meaning the condition of two things being so different in nature as to be incapable of coexisting:
Meaning a serious incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests:
Meaning resistance or dissent, expressed in action or argument:
discrepancy antonyms
Meaning the state or fact of being similar:
Meaning a close similarity, connection, or equivalence:
Translation of discrepancy
- French: divergence
- German: Diskrepanz
- Italian: discrepanza
- Spanish: discrepancia
Words that rhyme with discrepancy
absorbancy, perturbancy, titubancy, applicancy, impeccancy, insignificancy, mendicancy, nonmendicancy, nonsignificancy, nonvacancy, peccancy, presignificancy, secancy, significancy, supplicancy, unsignificancy, vacancy, Madancy, abundancy, accordancy, appendancy, ascendancy, attendancy, concordancy, dancy, dependancy, disappendancy, discordancy, exundancy, inaccordancy, intendancy, mordancy, nonascendancy, nondependancy, reascendancy, redundancy, regardancy, superabundancy, trepidancy, verdancy, faineancy, intransigeancy, miscreancy, recreancy, sergeancy, serjeancy, Fancy, befancy, bouffancy, fancy