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incompatibility vs incongruity

incongruity vs incompatibility

incompatibility and incongruity both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
incompatibility Yes No No No
incongruity Yes No No No
As nouns, incongruity is a hyponym of incompatibility; that is, incongruity is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than incompatibility:
  • incompatibility: the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination
  • incongruity: the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
Other hyponyms of incompatibility include conflict, incongruousness.
incompatibility (noun) incongruity (noun)
the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
(immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
Difference between incompatibility and incongruity

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