characteristic vs incompatibility

incompatibility vs characteristic

characteristic and incompatibility both are nouns.

characteristic is an adjective but incompatibility is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
characteristic	Yes	Yes	No	No
incompatibility	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, incompatibility is a hyponym of characteristic; that is, incompatibility is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than characteristic:

characteristic: a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
incompatibility: the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination

Other hyponyms of characteristic include passport, recommendation, compatibility, point, spot, point, earmark, hallmark, stylemark, trademark, saving grace, aspect, safeness, dangerousness, curability, curableness, incurability, incurableness, directness, straightness, indirectness, robustness, ruralism, rurality, streak, invasiveness, noninvasiveness.

characteristic (noun)	incompatibility (noun)
a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something	the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination
any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions	the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
a prominent attribute or aspect of something	(immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

characteristic (adjective)	incompatibility (adjective)
typical or distinctive

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