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    INCONGRUOUSNESS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriateplay

    Synonyms:

    incongruity; incongruousness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    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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