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Definition of Incongruity
1. Noun. The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate.
Generic synonyms: Incompatibility
Specialized synonyms: Irony
Antonyms: Congruity, Congruousness
Derivative terms: Incongruous, Incongruous
Definition of Incongruity
1. n. The quality or state of being incongruous; want of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety.
Definition of Incongruity
1. Noun. The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence. ¹
2. Noun. An instance or point of disagreement; a dissimilarity; a discrepancy; an inconsistency. ¹
3. Noun. A thing that is incongruous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incongruity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Incongruity
Literary usage of Incongruity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Genesis of Art-form: An Essay in Comparative æsthetics Showing the by George Lansing Raymond (1893)
"... incongruity, AND COMPREHENSIVENESS. The Order of the Arrangement of the Methods
in the last Chapter Corresponds to that of the Use of them by the ..."
2. Estates, Future Interests, and Illegal Conditions and Restraints in Illinois by Albert Martin Kales (1920)
"The place of the argument from absurdity or incongruity: It is always an argument
... If B is only one of several heirs of the testator this incongruity is ..."
3. Animal Life and Intelligence by Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1891)
"A sense of their incongruity is not aroused. But there are some people, ...
In this case, however, the incongruity is made congruous in a higher synthesis. ..."
4. On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford by Matthew Arnold (1861)
"... sense of its incongruity, and which violently surprises us. I say, again, that
when Mr. Newman translates the common line, ..."
5. The Essentials of æsthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and by George Lansing Raymond (1921)
"Congruity, incongruity, and Comprehensiveness — Central-Point, Setting, ...
Congruity leads to incongruity, or that both together lead to comprehensiveness. ..."
6. The Representative Significance of Form: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1909)
"Playful Conditions—incongruity as in the Burlesque, the Ludicrous, and the
Ridiculous—The Burlesque in the Mock-Heroic—In the Parody— In the Farce and ..."
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