incongruity

incongruity
    n 1: the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and
         inappropriate [syn: {incongruity}, {incongruousness}] [ant:
         {congruence}, {congruity}, {congruousness}]
    

Incongruity \In`con*gru"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Incongruities}. [Pref.
   in- not + congruity: cf. F. incongruit['e].]
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   1. The quality or state of being incongruous; lack of
      congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety.
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            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.
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   2. Disagreement of parts; lack of symmetry or of harmony.
      [Obs.]
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   3. That which is incongruous; lack of congruity.
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133 Moby Thesaurus words for "incongruity":
      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