Meanings
plural discrepancies · alternative archaic discrepance
- countableuncountableAn 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.
2 more examples
Still, there is pilferage, mysterious discrepancies eating into the percentages.
1981, John Updike, Rabbit is RichWikiLeaks 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.
2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2019, page 18Synonyms: conflict, contrariety, deviation, difference, disagreement, disparity, divergence, incompatibility
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
nounThe state or quality of being discrepant.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
nounan event that departs from expectations
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
- Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
- Proto-Italic*dis-
- Latindis-
- Latincrepō
- Latindiscrepō
- Latindiscrepāns
- Latindiscrepantia
- Englishdiscrepancy
Borrowed from Latin discrepantia, from discrepans, from discrepō, from crepō. By surface analysis, discrepant + -cy. See also discrepant.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic تَضَارُب, تَنَاقُض
- تَضَارُب (taḍārub)inconsistency
- تَنَاقُض (tanāquḍ)inconsistency
- تَفَاوُت (tafāwut)inconsistency
Bulgarian несъотве́тствие, несъгла́сие
- несъотве́тствие (nesăotvétstvie)inconsistency
- несъгла́сие (nesăglásie)inconsistency
- несъгла́сие (nesăglásie)discrepant state
- разли́чие (razlíčie)discrepant state
Catalan discrepància
- discrepànciainconsistency
Chinese Mandarin 差異 /差异
- 差異 /差异 (chāyì)inconsistency
Czech rozpor, nesrovnalost
- rozporinconsistency
- nesrovnalostinconsistency
Danish diskrepans
- diskrepansinconsistency
Dutch discrepantie, discrepantie
- discrepantieinconsistency
- discrepantiediscrepant state
Esperanto malakordo
- malakordoinconsistency
Finnish epäjohdonmukaisuus, eroavuus
- epäjohdonmukaisuusinconsistency
- eroavuusinconsistency
- epäjohdonmukaisuusdiscrepant state
French incohérence
- incohérenceinconsistency
German Diskrepanz, Widerspruch
- Diskrepanzinconsistency
- Widerspruchinconsistency
- Unstimmigkeitinconsistency
- Abweichunginconsistency
Greek ασυμφωνία
- ασυμφωνία (asymfonía)inconsistency
Hindi असंगति, विसंगति
- असंगति (asaṅgti)inconsistency
- विसंगति (visaṅgti)inconsistency
Hungarian ellentmondás
- ellentmondásinconsistency
Icelandic misræmi, ósamræmi
- misræmiinconsistency
- ósamræmiinconsistency
Indonesian kesenjangan, kesenjangan
- kesenjanganinconsistency
- kesenjangandiscrepant state
Japanese 違い, 食い違い
- 違い (chigai)inconsistency
- 食い違い (kuichigai)inconsistency
- 不一致 (fuitchi)inconsistency
Latin discrepantia
- discrepantiainconsistency
Polish rozbieżność
- rozbieżnośćinconsistency
Portuguese discrepância, discrepância
- discrepânciainconsistency
- discrepânciadiscrepant state
Russian расхожде́ние, разногла́сие
- расхожде́ние (rasxoždénije)inconsistency
- разногла́сие (raznoglásije)inconsistency
- разли́чие (razlíčije)discrepant state
- несоотве́тствие (nesootvétstvije)discrepant state
Scottish Gaelic eadar-dhealachadh
- eadar-dhealachadhinconsistency
Slovak diskrepancia, rozpor
- diskrepanciainconsistency
- rozporinconsistency
- nezrovnalosťinconsistency
Spanish discrepancia
- discrepanciainconsistency
Swedish diskrepans
- diskrepansinconsistency
Tagalog biso
- bisoinconsistency
Ukrainian розбі́жність
- розбі́жність (rozbížnistʹ)inconsistency
Cite this entry
discrepancy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discrepancy
“discrepancy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discrepancy. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “discrepancy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discrepancy.
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