Meaning of INCONGRUITY
| Pronunciation: | | `inkâng'grooitee
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| | Definition: | | [n] the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate |
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| | Synonyms: | | incongruousness |
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| | Antonyms: | | congruence, congruity, congruousness | | |
| | See Also: | | incompatibility, irony | |
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| | Definition: | | \In`con*gru"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Incongruities}. [Pref.
in- not + congruity: cf. F. incongruit['e].]
1. The quality or state of being incongruous; want of
congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety.
The fathers make use of this acknowledgment of the
incongruity of images to the Deity, from thence to
prove the incongruity of the worship of them. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.
2. Disagreement of parts; want of symmetry or of harmony.
[Obs.]
3. That which is incongruous; want of congruity.
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| | Related Terms: | | absurdity, absurdness, ambiguity, ambivalence, antilogy, antinomy, asymmetry, bizarreness, bizarrerie, contrariety, contrast, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disparity, disproportion, disproportionateness, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity, drollery, drollness, eccentricity, equivocality, far cry, funniness, futility, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hilarity, humorousness, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, impoliticalness, impoliticness, inaccordance, inadvisability, inappropriateness, inaptitude, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, inconclusiveness, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconvenience, inconveniency, ineptitude, inequality, inexpedience, inexpediency, infelicity, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inopportuneness, invalidity, irrationality, irreconcilability, laughability, ludicrousness, mixture, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformability, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonobservance, odds, opposition, originality, otherness, oxymoron, paradox, pricelessness, protest, quaintness, quizzicalness, reasonlessness, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, richness, ridiculousness, self-contradiction, senselessness, separateness, the funny side, unconformability, unconformity, undesirability, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unlikeness, unmeetness, unorthodoxy, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unreasonableness, unscientificness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsoundness, unsuitability, untenableness, untimeliness, unwiseness, uselessness, variance, variation, variegation, variety, whimsicalness, wittiness, worthlessness, wrongness |
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