Incongruity

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  • noun. Lack of congruence.
  • noun. The state or quality of being incongruous.
  • noun. Something incongruous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The quality of being incongruous; want of congruity or mutual fitness; unsuitableness of one thing to another; lack of adaptation.
  • noun. That which is incongruous; something not suitably conjoined, related, or adapted: as, this episode is an incongruity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being incongruous; lack of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety.
  • noun. Disagreement of parts; lack of symmetry or of harmony.
  • noun. That which is incongruous; lack of congruity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence.
  • noun. An instance or point of disagreement; a dissimilarity; a discrepancy; an inconsistency.
  • noun. A thing that is incongruous.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
  • Word Usage
    "Certainly it was an exercise in incongruity to compare these quiet, rather depressed looking people with the vision conjured up by Lord John's 'raving lunatics,' 'worthy of the straight jacket,' or Paul Filey's 'sexless monstrosities.'"
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