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INCONGRUOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does incongruousness mean?
• INCONGRUOUSNESS (noun)
The noun INCONGRUOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
Familiarity information: INCONGRUOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
incongruity; incongruousness
Hypernyms ("incongruousness" is a kind of...):
incompatibility (the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incongruousness"):
irony (incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs)
Antonym:
congruousness (the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate)
Derivation:
incongruous (lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness)
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