discrepancy Play nounAn illogical or surprising lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts. SYNONYMS conflictcontradictorinesscontrarietydeviationdifferencedisaccorddisagreementdiscordancedisparitydissimilaritydissimilitudedivergenceincompatibilityincongruityinconsistencyirreconcilabilitylack of congruencelack of similaritymismatchoppositionvariancevariation