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Definition of Incongruousness
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 Incongruousness
1. Noun. Incongruity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incongruousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incongruousness
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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