incongruity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=con=gru=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

incongruity, n. [Pref. in- not + congruity: cf. F. incongruité.].

•  The quality or state of being incongruous; lack of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety.  [1913 Webster]

  "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."  [1913 Webster]
•  Disagreement of parts; lack of symmetry or of harmony.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is incongruous; lack of congruity.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

incongruity

Disagreement

N disagreement, discord, discordance, dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy, unconformity, incongruity, incongruence, discongruity, mesalliance, jarring, dissension, conflict, bickering, clashing, misunderstanding, wrangle, disparity, mismatch, disproportion, dissimilitude, inequality, disproportionateness, variance, divergence, repugnance, unfitness, inaptitude, impropriety, inapplicability, inconsistency, inconcinnity, irrelevancy, misjoining, misjoinder, syncretism, intrusion, interference, concordia discors, fish out of water, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, at variance, at war, hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable, inconsistent with, unconformable, exceptional, intrusive, incongruous, disproportionate, disproportionated, inharmonious, unharmonious, inconsonant, unconsonant, divergent, repugnant to, inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper, unsuited, unsuitable, inapplicable, not to the point, unfit, unfitting, unbefitting, unbecoming, illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible, inapposite, uncongenial, ill-assorted, ill-sorted, mismatched, misjoined, misplaced, misclassified, unaccommodating, irreducible, incommensurable, uncommensurable, unsympathetic, out of character, out of keeping, out of proportion, out of joint, out of tune, out of place, out of season, out of its element, at odds with, at variance with, in defiance, in contempt, in spite of, discordantly, a tort et a travers, asinus ad lyram.