Other forms: disagreements
A disagreement is a failure to share the same view. Two people, two positions, and neither convinced.
The word is deliberately mild, which makes it useful, since describing a furious row as a disagreement is a diplomatic understatement everybody understands. It takes about, over or with. There is a second, quieter sense meaning inconsistency, as in a disagreement between two sets of figures. The verb is disagree, which takes with, and agreeing to disagree is the standard way of ending a discussion nobody will win.
1noundisagreementA difference of opinion.
“There was a sharp disagreement about the route.”
2nouninconsistencyAn inconsistency between two accounts or sets of data.
“The auditors found a disagreement in the figures.”
Middle English
agrement
English
agreement
English, today
disagreement
From dis- + agreement or disagree + -ment. agreement comes from Middle English agrement. From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. a doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA