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incompatibility
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, varietyFor further exploring for "incompatibility" in Webster Dictionary Online