English-Thai Dictionary

incongruity

N ความ ไม่ สอดคล้องกัน  ความ ไม่ลงรอยกัน  incongruousness congruity congruousness kwam-mai-sod-klong-kan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INCONGRUITY

n.[in and congruity. ] 1. Want of congruity; impropriety; inconsistency; absurdity; unsuitableness of one thing to another. The levity of youth in a grave divine, is deemed an incongruity between manners and profession.
2. Disagreement of parts; want of symmetry.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INCONGRUITY

In `con *gru "i *ty, n.; pl. Incongruities. Etym: [Pref. in- not +congruity: cf. F. incongruité. ]

 

1. The quality or state of being incongruous; want of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety. The fathers make use of this acknowledgment of the incongruity of images to the Deity, from thence to prove the incongruity of the worship of them. Bp. Stillingfleet.

 

2. Disagreement of parts; want of symmetry or of harmony. [Obs. ]

 

3. That which is incongruous; want of congruity.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

incongruity

in con gru i ty |ˌinkənˈgro͞o -itē, ˌiNG-, -käNG -ɪnkɑːnˈɡruːəti | ▶noun ( pl. incongruities ) the state of being incongruous or out of keeping: the incongruity of his fleshy face and skinny body disturbed her.

 

Oxford Dictionary

incongruity

incongruity |ˌɪnkɒŋˈgruːɪti | ▶noun ( pl. incongruities ) [ mass noun ] the state of being incongruous; incompatibility: the incongruity of his fleshy face and skinny body disturbed her. [ count noun ] : the movie presents numerous incongruities and reversals.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

incongruity

incongruity noun the incongruity of his fleshy face and skinny body disturbed her: inappropriateness, incongruousness, unsuitability, lack of harmony, discordance, inharmoniousness, dissonance, incompatibility, inconsistency, difference, disparity, discrepancy, irreconcilability; strangeness, oddity, absurdity, bizarreness, extraneousness; rare disconsonance. ANTONYMS appropriateness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

incongruity

in con gru i ty /ɪ̀nkənɡrú (ː )əti /名詞 複 -ties ｟かたく ｠U 不一致, 不調和 ; C 不一致 [不調和 ]な事物 .