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INCOMPATIBILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("incompatibility" is a kind of...):
characteristic (a distinguishing quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incompatibility"):
conflict (an incompatibility of dates or events)
incongruity; incongruousness (the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate)
Antonym:
compatibility (capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination)
Derivation:
incompatible (not compatible)
incompatible (not suitable to your tastes or needs)
incompatible (not easy to combine harmoniously)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
Synonyms:
incompatibility; inconsistency; mutual exclusiveness; repugnance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("incompatibility" is a kind of...):
contradictoriness (the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist)
Derivation:
incompatible (not compatible with other facts)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("incompatibility" is a kind of...):
physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)
Domain category:
immunology (the branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incompatibility"):
histoincompatibility (incompatibility in which one person's tissue cannot be transplanted to another person)
Rh incompatibility (incompatibility of Rh blood types; a transfusion of Rh-positive blood given to a Rh-negative person (or vice versa) can result in hemolysis and anemia)
