'Incongruity' definitions:
Definition of 'incongruity'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate [syn: incongruity, incongruousness] [ant: congruence, congruity, congruousness]
Definition of 'Incongruity'
From: GCIDE
- Incongruity \In`con*gru"i*ty\, n.; pl. Incongruities. [Pref. in- not + congruity: cf. F. incongruit['e].] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quality or state of being incongruous; lack of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Disagreement of parts; lack of symmetry or of harmony. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which is incongruous; lack of congruity. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'incongruity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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