Incompatibility

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incompatibility \In`com*pat`i*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {-ties}. [Cf.
     F. incompatibilit['e].]
     The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency;
     irreconcilableness.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incompatibility
       n 1: the relation between propositions that cannot both be true
            at the same time [syn: {mutual exclusiveness}, {inconsistency},
             {repugnance}]
       2: (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system
          will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood
          or transplanted tissue)
       3: the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial
          combination [ant: {compatibility}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "incompatibility":
     Discordia, Eris, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry,
     autism, bashfulness, chill, chilliness, clash, clashing, coldness,
     conflict, contention, contrariety, contrast, coolness, departure,
     deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disaffinity,
     disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance,
     discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity,
     disproportion, disproportionateness, dissent, dissimilarity,
     dissociability, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divergence,
     divergency, diversity, enmity, equivocality, far cry, friction,
     frost, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, iciness, inaccordance,
     incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibleness, incongruity,
     inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness,
     inharmony, inhospitality, inimicality, insociability,
     irreconcilability, jangle, jar, mischief, mixture, mopishness,
     moroseness, nonconformability, nonconformity, noncooperation, odds,
     open conflict, opposition, otherness, oxymoron, paradox,
     personal conflict, rub, self-containment, self-contradiction,
     self-sufficiency, separateness, social incompatibility, strain,
     strained relations, sullenness, tension, unamiability,
     uncommunicativeness, uncompanionability, unconformability,
     unconformity, uncongeniality, uncordiality, unfriendliness,
     ungeniality, ungregariousness, unharmoniousness, unlikeness,
     unorthodoxy, unpleasantness, unsociability, unsociableness,
     variance, variation, variegation, variety
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INCOMPATIBILITY. offices, rights. This term is used to show that two or more 
  things ought not to exist at the same time in the same person; for example, 
  a man cannot at the same time be landlord and tenant of the same land; heir 
  and devise of the same thing; trustee and cestui que trust of the same 
  property. 
       2. There are offices which are incompatible with each other by 
  constitutional provision; the vice-president of tho United States cannot act 
  as such when filling the office of president; Const. art. 1, s. 3, n. 5; and 
  by the same instrument, art. 1, s. 6, n. 2, it is directed that "no senator 
  or representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be 
  appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, 
  which shall have been created or the emoluments whereof shall have been 
  increased, during such time; and no person holding any office under the 
  United States, shall be a member of either house, during his continuance in 
  office." 
       3. Provisions rendering offices incompatible are to be found in most of 
  the, constitutions of the states, and in some of their laws. In 
  Pennsylvania, the acts of the 12th of February, 1802, 3 Smith's Laws of Pa. 
  485; and 6th of March, 1812, 5 Sm. L. Pa. 309, contain various provisions, 
  making certain offices incompatible, with each other. At common law, offices 
  subordinate and interfering with each other have been considered 
  incompatible; for example, a man cannot be at once a judge and prothonotary 
  or clerk of the same court. 4 Inst. 100. Vide 4 S. & R. 277; 17 S. & R. 219; 
  and the article Office. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  INCOMPATIBILITY, 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.