Definition of Incongruousness

1. Noun. The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate.

Exact synonyms: Incongruity
Generic synonyms: Incompatibility
Specialized synonyms: Irony
Antonyms: Congruity, Congruousness
Derivative terms: Incongruous, Incongruous

Definition of Incongruousness

1. Noun. Incongruity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incongruousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incongruousness

inconfused
inconfusion
inconfutable
incongealable
incongenial
incongruence
incongruences
incongruent
incongruent nystagmus
incongruently
incongruities
incongruity
incongruous
incongruous hemianopia
incongruously
incongruousness (current term)
incongruousnesses
inconie
inconjunct
inconjuncts
inconnected
inconnection
inconnexedly
inconnu
inconnue
inconnues
inconnus
inconquerable
inconscient
inconscionable

Literary usage of Incongruousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Charles Augustus Briggs, Alfred Plummer, Samuel Rolles Driver (1896)
"The first shows the incongruousness of fasting at a time when joy, ... The second shows the incongruousness of such observances as fasting with the new ..."

2. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Mark by Ezra Palmer Gould (1896)
"The first shows the incongruousness of fasting at a time when joy, ... The second shows the incongruousness of such observances as fasting with the new ..."

3. Present Religion as a Faith Owning Fellowship with Thought by Sara Sophia Hennell (1873)
"The mystic union of the natures, abstract and concrete, was thus painted, not with avoidance of the incongruousness that must ever exist when the type is ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"Now in all this we find incongruousness and surprise, and, to the spectator, sparkling, rollicking fun. In words, it would have the startle and ..."

5. The Century (1902)
"Mrs. Fitzgerald, with an odd sense of its incongruousness, took on herself the office of godmother. Their voices echoed with a thin, chilled sound through ..."

6. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"... which in the autumn had found but few supporters, grew in favour day by day through the winter and spring. The incongruousness of the present situa- A ..."

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