Usually means: Mismatch between expectations and reality.
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  1. incongruity: Merriam-Webster
  2. incongruity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incongruity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incongruity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incongruity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incongruity, incongruity: Wordnik
  7. incongruity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. incongruity: Wiktionary
  9. incongruity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. incongruity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. incongruity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Incongruity, incongruity: Dictionary.com
  13. Incongruity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Incongruity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. incongruity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. incongruity: Rhymezone
  17. Incongruity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. incongruity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. incongruity: FreeDictionary.org
  20. incongruity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. incongruity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. incongruity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. incongruity: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. incongruity: Legal dictionary

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  1. incongruity: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence.
▸ noun:  An instance or point of disagreement
▸ noun:  A thing that is incongruous.

Similar:
incongruousness, noncongruence, inconcinnity, inconsequence, disconvenience, incompatibility, incompatibleness, incommensuration, inconformity, uncongenialness, more...

Opposite:
congruity, consistency, harmony, compatibility

Types:
anachronism, oxymoron, paradox, contradiction, more...

Phrases:
wrongness incongruity, comedic incongruity, more...

Adjectives:
apparent, such, joint, comic, certain, very, strange, obvious, utter, semantic, striking

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Similar:
incongruousness, noncongruence, inconcinnity, inconsequence, disconvenience, incompatibility, incompatibleness, incommensuration, inconformity, uncongenialness, more...

Opposite:
congruity, consistency, harmony, compatibility

Types:
anachronism, oxymoron, paradox, contradiction, more...

Phrases:
wrongness incongruity, comedic incongruity, more...

Adjectives:
apparent, such, joint, comic, certain, very, strange, obvious, utter, semantic, striking

Colors:
    chartreuse,     mauve,     puce,     teal,     fuchsia, more...



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