incongruity

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French incongruité, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  incongruitas

Noun

incongruity (countable and uncountable, plural incongruities)

1. The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence.
2. An instance or point of disagreement

   Synonyms: dissimilarity, discrepancy, inconsistency

3. A thing that is incongruous.

Translations

being incongruous

• Bulgarian: несъответствие (bg) n (nesǎotvetstvie)
• German: Inkongruenz (de) f, Unvereinbarkeit f, Ungleichheit (de) f, Disparität (de) f, Nichtübereinstimmung f
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• Irish: aimhriar f, aiste f, coimhthíos m, mífhreagracht f, neamhréireacht f
• Russian: несоотве́тствие (ru) (nesootvétstvije)

point of disagreement

• German: Diskrepanz (de) f, Unvereinbarkeit f, Unterschied (de) m, Mißverhältnis (de) n
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• Russian: несоотве́тствие (ru) (nesootvétstvije)

a thing that is incongruous

• German: Inkongruenz (de) f
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• Russian: несоотве́тствие (ru) (nesootvétstvije)

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “incongruity”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.