incompatibility

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

French incompatiblebor.

English incompatible

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Latin -itāsder.

Old French -itebor.

Middle English -ite

English -ity

English incompatibility

From incompatible + -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪnkəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

incompatibility (countable and uncountable, plural incompatibilities)

1. The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilability.

Antonyms

• compatibility

Derived terms

• backward incompatibility
• bioincompatibility
• histoincompatibility
• self-incompatibility

Related terms

• irreconcilability
• incombinability

Translations

the quality or state of being incompatible

• Bulgarian: несъвместимост (bg) f (nesǎvmestimost)
• Catalan: incompatibilitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不相容 (zh) (bùxiāngróng)

• Dutch: incompatibiliteit (nl), onverenigbaarheid (nl), strijdigheid
• Esperanto: malakordo
• Finnish: yhteensopimattomuus
• French: incompatibilité (fr) f
• Galician: incompatibilidade (gl) f
• German: Unvereinberkeit, Inkompatibilität (de) f
• Greek: ασυμβατότητα (el) (asymvatótita)
• Hindi: असंगति (hi) f (asaṅgti)
• Indonesian: inkompatibilitas (id)
• Irish: neamhréiteacht f, neamh-chomhoiriúnacht f, neamhfhreagracht f
• Italian: incompatibilità (it) f
• Japanese: 不相容 (fusōyō), 対立 (tairitsu), 矛盾 (mujun)
• Polish: niezgodność (pl) f
• Portuguese: incompatibilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: incompatibilitate (ro)
• Russian: несовмести́мость (ru) f (nesovmestímostʹ)
• Spanish: incompatibilidad (es) f
• Tocharian B: wirot

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “incompatibility”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “incompatibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.