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incongruity
  1. The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence.
  2. An instance or point of disagreement; a dissimilarity; a discrepancy; an inconsistency.
  3. A thing that is incongruous.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “It is this ontologically negating principle that sets the stage for Rabelais's comedy of evil and incongruity.”
      “The sheer oddness of the way the place functioned, the incongruity between functioning and pretension.”
      “The authors attribute this incongruity to the higher rate of iatrogenic preterm deliveries in the untreated group.”
incongruence
  1. a want of congruence; incongruity.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Motion sickness is attributed to an incongruence in the sensory input from the vestibular, visual, and somatosensory systems.”
      “Bal gives a personal, nuanced account of her own wrestling with the incongruence of a black minstrel tradition amidst The Netherlands' sea of whiteness.”
      “All explanations of the second form of incongruence from the point of view of a phyletic force464 can also be shown to be absurd.”
incongruency
  1. incongruence
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The ideas of separate color and verbal processing and suppression of incorrect verbal responses suggest an explanation for incongruency loss.”
      “Many of the young people take rave to be something close to religious ecstasy, and the bizarre nature of the event is enhanced with the architectural incongruency of a military site being used to party.”
incongruousness
  1. Incongruity.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “My only criticism would be the incongruousness between references to colour plates and their placement in the book.”
      “I therefore want to draw particular attention to the incongruousness of our having such a need to catch up in the social sphere.”
      “The comedy is in the abruptness of the stop and the incongruousness of the change.”
incongruousnesses
incongruences
  1. plural of incongruence
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A loving relationship demands multiple and shared perspectives, which always give rise to incongruences and tensions.”
      “This work, notwithstanding some incongruences, is nevertheless a useful instrument of work for the history of the Diocese and of the City itself.”
      “Among species also incongruences are of frequent occurrence.”
incongruencies
incongruities
  1. plural of incongruity
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    1. “Ms Fullerton says manifest incongruities occur in the statements of two, who sought to distance themselves from any responsibility.”
      “Guyana is a place of strange contrasts, unexpected juxtapositions, curious incongruities.”
      “In the smaller courts in particular, where the painter was free to indulge his fights of fancy, anachronisms and incongruities abound.”
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