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INCONGRUOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
Synonyms:
incongruity; incongruousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("incongruousness" is a kind of...):
incompatibility (the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incongruousness"):
irony (incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs)
Antonym:
congruousness (the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate)
Derivation:
incongruous (lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness)
