disharmonism
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Noun[edit]
disharmonism (usually uncountable, plural disharmonisms)
- (anthropology, archaic) A disharmonious mixture; the combination of traits from different races.
- 1898, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 52, page 54:
- Oftentimes the result of intermixture is a disharmonism, in which the broad Alpine head is conjoined with the longish face of the Teuton, or the reverse.