About The Word Incongruity

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Incongruity

Incongruity Meaning & Definition
Incongruity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Incongruity?

[n] the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate

Synonyms | Synonyms for Incongruity: incongruousness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Incongruity: 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

See Also | incompatibility | irony

Incongruity In Webster's Dictionary

\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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