INCONGRUOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate

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)