Incompatibility
['ɪnkəm,pætə'bɪlətɪ] or ['ɪnkəm,pætə'bɪləti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination.
(noun.) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time.
(noun.) (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue).
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Inconsistency, incongruity, unsuitableness, want of agreement, want of adaptation.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may however consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.
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Examples
- To a softening down of your ideas of the incompatibility? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- What I shall say to people in general, of the incompatibility that led to my so laying down the law, will be this. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- These evidences of an incompatibility of temper induced Miss Betsey to pay him off, and effect a separation by mutual consent. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Now, there's an incompatibility of some sort or another, I am given to understand by you, between your daughter and me. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- What I suffered from, was the incompatibility between his cold presence and my feelings towards Estella. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was further embittered at the Reformation by this religious incompatibility. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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