incongruity
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kənˈgru noun, plural in·con·gru·i·ties for 2.
1.
the quality or condition of being incongruous.
2.
something incongruous.
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| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | something incongruous |
| 2. | the state or quality of being incongruous |
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Incongruity
is always a great word to know.
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Example sentences
Abrams, the writer and director and presiding pop-culture guru-geek, is surely aware of the incongruity.
It's the incongruity of the patent holders with their invention, as much as the invention itself, that is remarkable.
Perhaps it is the incongruity that moves us, such large enthusiasms in such small bodies.
It highlights a different form of incongruity which has to do with the violation of expectations, intentionally or otherwise.
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