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discordance

noun/dɪˈskɔːdəns/

C1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

A lack of agreement or consistency between findings or accounts.

The handover addressed the discordance between the patient's account and the collateral history.

Similar: disagreement, inconsistency

Topic: Clinical consultation in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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