Compare synonyms for [GRIEF].
Prepositions:
A happy event for him; happy at a reply; happy in his home, with his friends, among his children; happy at the discovery, over his success.
HARMONY.
Synonyms:
| accord, | concurrence, | consistency, | uniformity, |
| accordance, | conformity, | consonance, | union, |
| agreement, | congruity, | symmetry, | unison, |
| amity, | consent, | unanimity, | unity. |
| concord, | |||
When tones, thoughts, or feelings, individually different, combine to form a consistent and pleasing whole, there is harmony. Harmony is deeper and more essential than agreement; we may have a superficial, forced, or patched-up agreement, but never a superficial, forced, or patched-up harmony. Concord is less full and spiritual than harmony. Concord implies more volition than accord; as, their views were found to be in perfect accord; or, by conference concord was secured; we do not secure accord, but discover it. We may speak of being in accord with a person on one point, but harmony is wider in range. Conformity is correspondence in form, manner, or use; the word often signifies submission to authority or necessity, and may be as far as possible from harmony; as, the attempt to secure conformity to an established religion. Congruity involves the element of suitableness; consistency implies the absence of conflict or contradiction in views, statements, or acts which are brought into comparison, as in the different statements of the same person or the different periods of one man's life; unanimity is the complete hearty agreement[192] of many; consent and concurrence refer to decision or action, but consent is more passive than concurrence; one speaks by general consent when no one in the assembly cares to make formal objection; a decision of the Supreme Court depends upon the concurrence of a majority of the judges. Compare [AGREE]; [FRIENDSHIP]; [MELODY].
Antonyms:
| antagonism, | contest, | discord, | hostility, | schism, |
| battle, | controversy, | disproportion, | incongruity, | separation, |
| conflict, | difference, | dissension, | inconsistency, | variance, |
| contention, | disagreement, | disunion, | opposition, | warfare. |