INCONGRUITY


Meaning of INCONGRUITY in English

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Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French incongruité, from Late Latin incongruitat-, incongruitas, from incongruus + Latin -itat-, -itas -ity

1. : the quality or state of being incongruous : lack of congruity : inconsistency , inharmony , disagreement

2. : something that is incongruous : a thing that lacks harmonious or rational relation to its environment

Victorian incongruities in a typically mid-20th-century setting

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