incompatibility

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=com=pat=i=bil=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

incompatibility, n. [Cf. F. incompatibilité.].

 The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.  [1913 Webster]

DEVIL DICTIONARY

incompatibility

n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.

THESAURUS

incompatibility

Discordia, Eris, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry, autism, bashfulness, chill, chilliness, clash, clashing, coldness, conflict, contention, contrariety, contrast, coolness, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disaffinity, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity, disproportion, disproportionateness, dissent, dissimilarity, dissociability, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity, enmity, equivocality, far cry, friction, frost, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, iciness, inaccordance, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibleness, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inhospitality, inimicality, insociability, irreconcilability, jangle, jar, mischief, mixture, mopishness, moroseness, nonconformability, nonconformity, noncooperation, odds, open conflict, opposition, otherness, oxymoron, paradox, personal conflict, rub, self-containment, self-contradiction, self-sufficiency, separateness, social incompatibility, strain, strained relations, sullenness, tension, unamiability, uncommunicativeness, uncompanionability, unconformability, unconformity, uncongeniality, uncordiality, unfriendliness, ungeniality, ungregariousness, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unpleasantness, unsociability, unsociableness, variance, variation, variegation, variety