discrepancy

• discrepance (archaic)

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

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /dɪˈskɹɛpənsi/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɪˈskɹepənsi/

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /dəˈskɹepənsi/

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.

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

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