What do you like more order or mess? Men sometimes sympathize with “creative mess,” they call the state of things that prevails in their room or on their desktop. But today we will talk about harmony and disharmony, and this promises an informative journey into the world of words.
Origin of the opposite
As it is easy to understand, the word "disharmony" is not found in the etymological dictionary, but there is the opposite word - "harmony". Having understood what kind of source the order has (this is one of the meanings of harmony), we learn something about disorder.
One would think that the word came to us from Greek, but not everything is so simple. In fact, the word is known from the end of the XVIII - beginning of the XIX century. Moreover, the path to the Russian language of the concept was thorny: it came from Latin through Polish and goes back to Greek. Values:
- communication;
- consistency;
- compatibility.
It is also interesting that they used to say “harmony”, thus copying the Greek original. Then the pronunciation that we know so far was established. At first, the word existed as a musical term and meant “system”, “fret”, “order”, then it acquired a figurative meaning.
As for the object of study, we can say that it denies all of the above, because the Latin prefix dis- or “dis-” expresses negation, absence.
Value
Disharmony is something that rarely anyone likes. The etymological dictionary rejected the concept, and the explanatory dictionary, on the contrary, was in this sense more democratic and the noun sheltered and generously explained its meaning:
- Inconsistent combination of sounds, violation of harmony.
- Lack of consent, compliance, discord (book and figurative).
suggestions
There will be no harmony if you do not offer the reader any indicative examples of the use of the meaning of the word “disharmony”. Perhaps the latter would not like to serve order, but the words are forced to obey the will of the author. They cannot go against her:
- Yes, this room is full of disharmony: the walls are white, the ceiling is purple, and I don’t even want to look at the floor.
- Yes, you could never dress with style. Nobody puts on sneakers under a tailcoat - this is disharmony.
- If harmony and disharmony were women, then of course they would be very beautiful, but one in white and the other in black. They need beauty in order to be in equal conditions of competition.
We hope that the question of the meaning of the concept will no longer arise. Disharmony is the element that is necessary for a general world balance, however.