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Meanings of incongruity in English

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incongruència

The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate.

incongruència
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Examples for "incongruousness"
Examples for "incongruousness"
1
She was laughing at herself, at her incongruousness, at her trivial mortifications.
The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax
2
With an incongruousness that was characteristic, his favourite study was theology.
Queen Victoria
3
For between the man and his clothes there was a startling and painful incongruousness.
Eyeless in Gaza
4
Yet it somehow jarred upon her nerves with its complacency and its utter incongruousness to her feelings.
Tales of Trail and Town
5
He found indeed a gleeful point in the joke of the incongruousness of his own presence amid such surroundings.
The Shuttle
Usage of incongruity in English
1
And I imagine a corresponding incongruity in the soul of the creature.
In Ghostly Japan
2
Was it another instance of the right hemisphere's ability to resolve incongruity?
A whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future
3
He felt no incongruity in the veteran Parmenides correcting the youthful Socrates.
Parmenides
4
The picture is almost comic in its incongruity with what actually is.
The Conquest of Fear
5
These associations were not mediated by neighborhood poverty or negative income incongruity.
Pubmed
6
But it was still there in all its barbaric and provincial incongruity.
A Ward of the Golden Gate
7
He was of course immensely amused by the incongruity of the acquaintance.
T. Tembarom
8
In addition to that, one very obvious incongruity screamed out at her.
The cold room
9
But there is a strange and startling incongruity observable in this enclosure.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 / Devoted t...
10
They also exhibit much of the incongruity and imperfection of hasty legislation.
State of the Union Addresses
11
The first and third sections of the bill exhibit yet further incongruity.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volu...
12
There also are examples of incongruity between cleavage site sequence and virulence.
Pubmed
13
Barbara was struck by the incongruity of his appearance and his behavior.
The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army
14
When the committee met, every one discovered his incongruity with the rest.
Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire
15
The result is that our rejoicing partakes of the incongruity of humor.
The Soul of the Far East
16
The very incongruity is the foundation of the humor-incongruity, mingled with surprise.
Writing the Photoplay
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Translations for incongruity
Incongruity through the time
Incongruity across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common