What does incongruity mean?
Incongruity means The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence..
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/ɪnkɑŋˈɡɹuɪti/ · noun
The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence..
I was told that the Australian Government had had to send my name to London before agreeing to my appointment. My credentials were actually addressed to Her Majesty, despite the fact that the Government of the United Kingdom had recognized the Chinese Communist regime in Peking as early as 1950. No one, however, seemed to notice the incongruity of such an arrangement.
Use incongruity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Incongruity means The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence..
Common synonyms include incongruence, incongruency, dissimilarity, discrepancy.
Possible antonyms include congruence, congruency, congruity, congruousness.
I was told that the Australian Government had had to send my name to London before agreeing to my appointment. My credentials were actually addressed to Her Majesty, despite the fact that the Government of the United Kingdom had recognized the Chinese Communist regime in Peking as early as 1950. No one, however, seemed to notice the incongruity of such an arrangement.
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