Incongruity

3 definitions found

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

  Incongruity \In`con*gru"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Incongruities}. [Pref.
     in- not + congruity: cf. F. incongruit['e].]
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     1. The quality or state of being incongruous; lack of
        congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety.
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              The fathers make use of this acknowledgment of the
              incongruity of images to the Deity, from thence to
              prove the incongruity of the worship of them. --Bp.
                                                    Stillingfleet.
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     2. Disagreement of parts; lack of symmetry or of harmony.
        [Obs.]
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     3. That which is incongruous; lack of congruity.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incongruity
       n : the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and
           inappropriate [syn: {incongruousness}] [ant: {congruity},
            {congruity}]

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

  133 Moby Thesaurus words for "incongruity":
     absurdity, absurdness, ambiguity, ambivalence, antilogy, antinomy,
     asymmetry, bizarreness, bizarrerie, contrariety, contrast,
     departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance,
     disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discordance,
     discrepancy, discreteness, disparity, disproportion,
     disproportionateness, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance,
     distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity,
     drollery, drollness, eccentricity, equivocality, far cry,
     funniness, futility, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hilarity,
     humorousness, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness,
     impoliticalness, impoliticness, inaccordance, inadvisability,
     inappropriateness, inaptitude, incoherence, incommensurability,
     incompatibility, inconclusiveness, inconsistency, inconsonance,
     inconvenience, inconveniency, ineptitude, inequality, inexpedience,
     inexpediency, infelicity, inharmoniousness, inharmony,
     inopportuneness, invalidity, irrationality, irreconcilability,
     laughability, ludicrousness, mixture, noncompliance,
     nonconcurrence, nonconformability, nonconformance, nonconformism,
     nonconformity, nonobservance, odds, opposition, originality,
     otherness, oxymoron, paradox, pricelessness, protest, quaintness,
     quizzicalness, reasonlessness, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy,
     refractoriness, richness, ridiculousness, self-contradiction,
     senselessness, separateness, the funny side, unconformability,
     unconformity, undesirability, unfitness, unfittingness,
     unfortunateness, unlikeness, unmeetness, unorthodoxy,
     unprofitability, unprofitableness, unreasonableness,
     unscientificness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsoundness,
     unsuitability, untenableness, untimeliness, unwiseness,
     uselessness, variance, variation, variegation, variety,
     whimsicalness, wittiness, worthlessness, wrongness