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From in- +‎ harmony.

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inharmony (countable and uncountable, plural inharmonies)

  1. Lack of harmony.
    • 1909, Ambrose Bierce, “What I Saw of Shiloh”, in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I:
      Here in the night stretches a wide and blasted field studded with half-extinct fires burning redly with I know not what presage of evil. . . . To what monstrous inharmony of death was it the visible prelude?
    • 1912, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 22, in The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance:
      Tom Slater made a congratulatory speech—in reality, a mournful adjuration to avoid the pitfalls of matrimonial inharmony.

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