discrepancy

English

WOTD – 6 August 2006

Alternative forms

• discrepance (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin discrepantia, from discrepans, from discrepō, from crepō. By surface analysis, discrepant +‎ -cy. See also discrepant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkɹɛpənsi/

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Noun

discrepancy (countable and uncountable, plural discrepancies)

1. An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.

   They found a discrepancy between the first set of test results and the second, and they're still trying to figure out why.

   • 1981, John Updike, Rabbit is Rich:

     Still, there is pilferage, mysterious discrepancies eating into the percentages.

   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.

2. The state or quality of being discrepant.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:discrepancy.

Synonyms

• (inconsistency): conflict, contrariety, deviation, difference, disagreement, disparity, divergence, incompatibility, inconsistency, mismatch, variance, variation, dissimilarity, anomaly
• (discrepant state): discordance, anomalous

Derived terms

• nondiscrepancy

 

Translations

inconsistency

Arabic: تَضَارُب m (taḍārub), تَنَاقُض (ar) m (tanāquḍ) Bulgarian: несъотве́тствие (bg) n (nesǎotvétstvie), несъгла́сие (bg) n (nesǎglásie) Chinese: Mandarin: 差異／差异 (zh) (chāyì) Czech: rozpor (cs) m, nesrovnalost f Dutch: discrepantie (nl) f Esperanto: malakordo Finnish: epäjohdonmukaisuus (fi), eroavuus (fi) French: incohérence (fr) f German: Diskrepanz (de) f, Widerspruch (de), Unstimmigkeit (de), Abweichung (de) Greek: ασυμφωνία (el) f (asymfonía) Hungarian: ellentmondás (hu) Icelandic: misræmi (is) n, ósamræmi n Indonesian: kesenjangan (id) Japanese: 違い (ja) (ちがい, chigai), 食い違い (ja) (くいちがい, kuichigai), 不一致 (ja) (ふいっち, fuitchi) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: nakokî (ku) f, nelihevî (ku) f, newekhevî (ku) f Latin: discrepantia f Plautdietsch: Fäla m Polish: rozbieżność (pl) Portuguese: discrepância (pt) f Russian: расхожде́ние (ru) n (rasxoždénije), разногла́сие (ru) n (raznoglásije) Scottish Gaelic: eadar-dhealachadh m Serbo-Croatian: raskorak (sh) m Slovak: diskrepancia f, rozpor m, nezrovnalosť f Spanish: discrepancia (es) f Swedish: diskrepans (sv) c Tagalog: biso

discrepant state

Bulgarian: несъгла́сие (bg) n (nesǎglásie), разли́чие (bg) n (razlíčie) Dutch: discrepantie (nl) f Finnish: epäjohdonmukaisuus (fi) Indonesian: kesenjangan (id) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: nakokî (ku) f, nelihevî (ku) f, newekhevî (ku) f Portuguese: discrepância (pt) f Russian: разли́чие (ru) n (razlíčije), несоотве́тствие (ru) n (nesootvétstvije)