incongruity

  • 11incongruity — incongruous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ out of place. DERIVATIVES incongruity noun (pl. incongruities) incongruously adverb …

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  • 12incongruity — noun (plural ties) Date: circa 1532 1. the quality or state of being incongruous 2. something that is incongruous …

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  • 13incongruity — /in keuhn grooh i tee, keuhng /, n., pl. incongruities for 2. 1. the quality or condition of being incongruous. 2. something incongruous. [1525 35; < LL incongruitas. See IN 3, CONGRUITY] * * * …

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  • 14incongruity — noun a) The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence. b) An instance or point of disagreement; a dissimilarity; a discrepancy; an inconsistency …

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  • 15incongruity — Synonyms and related words: absurdity, absurdness, ambiguity, ambivalence, antilogy, antinomy, asymmetry, bizarreness, bizarrerie, contrariety, contrast, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity,&#8230; …

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  • 16incongruity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. disharmony; inconsistency, incompatibility, absurdity. See difference, disagreement. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. discrepancy, inappropriateness, mismatch, anachronism; see difference 1 , inconsistency .&#8230; …

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  • 17incongruity — in·con·gru·i·ty || ‚ɪnkÉ™n gruːətɪ n. inconsistency; lack of harmony; unsuitability, quality of being inappropriate …

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  • 18incongruity — n. Unsuitableness, inconsistency, unfitness, inappropriateness, discrepancy, incompatibility, incoherence, absurdity, contrariety, contradiction, contradictoriness …

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  • 19incongruity — n 1. incompatibility, inconformability, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, diversity, difference, dissimilitude; inappropriateness, inaptness, inappositeness, unsuitabilty, unfitness, unfittingness, impropriety, unseemliness. 2. inconsonance,&#8230; …

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  • 20incongruity — in·congruity …

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