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Meanings of incongruousness in English

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incongruència

The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate.

incongruència
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Examples for "incongruity"
Examples for "incongruity"
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.
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Usage of incongruousness in English
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
6
The boudoir was a large room, repeating on a bigger scale the incongruousness and ill fitting splendor of the others.
A Sappho of Green Springs
7
It was only after he had sent off Madame's man-of-all-work with it that the incongruousness of challenging so old a man struck him.
The False Chevalier / or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
8
These hillocks of crushed toxic rock are striking and surreal, and reflect the incongruousness of a territory where history, economy and contemporary South Africa collide.
The South African
9
"There's an incongruousness in the figure in connection with being obviously in hiding in a lodging-house street."
Emily Fox-Seton / Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The M...
Translations for incongruousness
Incongruousness through the time