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Definition of Incongruity
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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 |
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Incongruity Quotations
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 Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. William Hazlitt The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. Reinhold Niebuhr Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. Max Beerbohm 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 |
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Incongruity Translations
incongruity in Norwegian is uoverensstemmelse |
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