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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate;
[syn: incongruity, incongruousness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Incongruous \In*con"gru*ous\, a. [L. incongruus. See In- not, and Congruous.] Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent; improper; as, an incongruous remark; incongruous behavior, action, dress, etc. "Incongruous mixtures of opinions." --I. Taylor. "Made up of incongruous parts." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Incongruous denotes that kind of absence of harmony or suitableness of which the taste and experience of men takes cognizance. --C. J. Smith. [1913 Webster] Incongruous numbers (Arith.), two numbers, which, with respect to a third, are such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder, the two numbers being said to be incongruous with respect to the third; as, twenty and twenty-five are incongruous with respect to four. Syn: Inconsistent; unsuitable; inharmonious; disagreeing; absurd; inappropriate; unfit; improper. See Inconsistent. -- In*con"gru*ous*ly, adv. -- In*con"gru*ous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

incongruousness n 1: the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate [syn: incongruity, incongruousness] [ant: congruence, congruity, congruousness]