Definition of Incongruity

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Definition of Incongruity
	Incongruity The quality or state of being incongruous; want of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety. Disagreement of parts; want of symmetry or of harmony. That which is incongruous; want of congruity. Related Definitions: Being, Congruity, Disagreement, Harmony, Impropriety, Incongruous, Inconsistency, Is, Of, Or, Quality, State, Symmetry, That, The, Want, Which

Incongruity Quotations

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
George Eliot

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Max Beerbohm

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.
Emmett Kelly

Incongruity Translations

incongruity in Norwegian is uoverensstemmelse

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