incongruity

English

Etymology

From Middle French incongruité, from Medieval Latin incongruitas

Noun

incongruity (countable and uncountable, plural incongruities)

The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence.
An instance or point of disagreement
Synonyms: dissimilarity, discrepancy, inconsistency
A thing that is incongruous.

Translations

being incongruous

Bulgarian: несъответствие (bg) n (nesǎotvetstvie)
German: Inkongruenz (de) f, Unvereinbarkeit f, Ungleichheit (de) f, Disparität (de) f, Nichtübereinstimmung f

Irish: aimhriar f, aiste f, coimhthíos m, mífhreagracht f, neamhréireacht f
Russian: несоотве́тствие (ru) (nesootvétstvije)

point of disagreement

German: Diskrepanz (de) f, Unvereinbarkeit f, Unterschied (de) m, Mißverhältnis (de) n

Russian: несоотве́тствие (ru) (nesootvétstvije)

a thing that is incongruous

German: Inkongruenz (de) f

Russian: несоотве́тствие (ru) (nesootvétstvije)

References

“incongruity” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

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