Incongruity
[,ɪnkɒŋ'gruːɪtɪ] or [,ɪnkɑŋ'grʊəti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate.
Typist: Sadie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being incongruous; want of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety.
(n.) Disagreement of parts; want of symmetry or of harmony.
(n.) That which is incongruous; want of congruity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Unsuitableness, inconsistency, impropriety, inappropriateness, discrepancy, incompatibility, incoherence, absurdity.
Typist: Phil
Examples
- Now, it is a mere anomaly and incongruity here, out of date and out of purpose. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Although he was dressed correctly for his part, yet there was an innate incongruity which caused a slight ridiculousness in his appearance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As one is about to pass out of the library attention is arrested by an incongruity in the form of a cot, which stands in an alcove near the door. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The incongruity between the men's deeds and their environment was great. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- With all the incongruities of his character, Raymond was emphatically a man of the world. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- One can comprehend it only when night has hidden all incongruities and created a theatre proper for so grand a drama. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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