The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incongruity \In`con*gru"i*ty\, n.; pl. Incongruities. [Pref. in- not + congruity: cf. F. incongruit['e].]
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The quality or state of being incongruous; lack of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety.
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. Disagreement of parts; lack of symmetry or of harmony.
That which is incongruous; lack of congruity.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of incongruity English)
Usage examples of "incongruities".
And I went and saw Shoji and made him tell me as much as I could about incongruities without making him suspicious.
Setting up the necessary equipment to test for incongruities is extremely expensive.
One is that theyâre not incongruities, that there are objects and events in the continuum that are nonsignificant.
As soon as the danger of incongruities was realized, the net was modified to automatically shut down whenever the slippage reaches dangerous levels.
But not enough to fit Fujisakiâs theory that incongruities occur when the slippage required is more than the net can supply.
One is that they’re not incongruities, that there are objects and events in the continuum that are nonsignificant.
But not enough to fit Fujisaki’s theory that incongruities occur when the slippage required is more than the net can supply.
If it is commonly asserted that the humorist laughs because of the incongruities of life, it is, nevertheless, just as sale to maintain that the man born to laughter will be driven by his instincts to search for incongruities.
I think it may be because the NDE doesn't have incongruities and discontinuities.
There are still enough incongruities so that we know we have only part of the story.
All his experience with Minoan artifacts told him no, that the ship was genuine— but these logical incongruities were weighing heavily.
She often wondered about the voynix, those intruders that the posts referred to only as “chronosynthetic artifacts” or “temporal incongruities,” but these half-glimpsed figures—always lurking in the shadows, disappearing around the curve of the next ice corridor—were short and canvas-wrapped rather than tall and blind and carapaced.