incompatibilityn.
/ɪnkəmpatɪˈbɪlɪti/ 1.
a. The quality or condition of being incompatible; incongruity, absolute inconsistency, irreconcilableness.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > quality or condition of being incompatible
incompatibleness1608
incompatibility1611
incompossibility1629
incompetibilitya1660
incoherence1665
incompetibleness1727
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Incompatibilité, incompatibilitie, iarring, disagreement.
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 310 The incompatibilitie of the then vsd superstitions in the Camp, and Christianitie.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. iii. 272 Incompatibility or repugnancy to co-existence.
1763 L. Scrafton Refl. Govt. Indostan (1770) ii. 45 Hadjee Hamet..gave the world an instance more of the incompatibility of wickedness with happiness.
1799 in Ann. 7th Congr. 2nd Sess. 751 Independently of the opinions strongly expressed, there appears to me an incompatibility of temper.
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics vii. §66. 73 The hypothesis..which others had rejected from its incompatibility with the phenomena of the spectrum.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 128 Divorces are readily allowed for incompatibility of temper.
b. (with plural) An incompatible thing or quality.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > quality or condition of being incompatible > one who or that which is incompatible
incompatibility1671
incompatiblea1711
conflict of interest1837
1671 E. Panton Speculum Juventutis 105 You may tell me that I propose Incompatibilities.
1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 80 They made him an absurd Compound of incompatibilities.
1823 C. Lamb Artific. Comedy in Elia 331 The comedy, I have said, is incongruous; a mixture of Congreve with sentimental incompatibilities.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvii. 442 It became a grave question,..how to reconcile the incompatibilities of dog and goat.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun]
unablenessc1380
unabletyc1380
infirmityc1384
unabilityc1475
non-ability1477
inability1500
disability1545
unsufficiency1580
disablement1597
disableness1609
incapacity1611
uncapableness1611
incapability1632
incapableness1632
uncapabilitya1644
incompatibility1659
incompetibilitya1660
uncapacity1681
invalidity1698
disable1827
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun]
inconvenience1413
uncompetence?1541
unaptness1548
improperty1555
unaptness1557
unproperness1561
impertinency1573
unmeetness1574
disagreement1580
unfitnessa1586
unsuitablenessa1586
incongruity1597
inconvenientness1600
improperness1612
indispositiona1613
insuitability1612
ineptitude1615
impertinence1616
inconcinnity1616
infelicity1617
unbeseemingness1623
ineptness1633
impertinentness1645
incompatibility1659
incompetibilitya1660
disaccommodationa1676
indecorousness1681
indisposednessa1684
inaptitudea1688
impropriety1697
wrongness1726
ineligibility1795
inaptness1814
unsuitability1814
unappropriateness1838
unadaptedness1846
inappropriateness1847
unfittingness1861
unbefittingness1865
ineligibleness1881
1659 Parl. Let. 9 May in England's Conf. 14 We..urged their incompatibility to judge of the Members.
3. Pharmacology. The condition (of drugs) of being incompatible (sense 5); an instance of this.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > qualities of medicines
acuity1543
benignity1605
lenitude1657
incompatibility1825
alkalescency1826
specificity1876
compatibility1898
orgonity1945
addictiveness1955
1825 R. Best Tables Chem. Equivalents 29 This table refers only to chemical incompatibility. The physician must decide for himself, on the propriety of combining those substances which it designates as incompatible with each other.
1877 R. Farquharson Guide Therapeutics 14 Incompatibility may be of different sorts, and is generally divided into chemical and physiological.
1948 M. Gross & L. A. Greenberg Salicylates ii. 16 Incompatibility of salicylic acid has been reported with compounds of bismuth.
1969 J. A. Bevan Essent. Pharmacol. lxv. 628 The whole problem of drug incompatibility is changing as our knowledge of drug metabolism enlarges.
1969 J. A. Bevan Essent. Pharmacol. lxv. 629 In Table 65-2 some common therapeutic drug incompatibilities are listed.
1970 A. Grollman & E. F. Grollman Pharmacol. & Therapeutics (ed. 7) i. 20 Incompatibilities between drugs may also occur when they are mixed, as a result of physical or chemical changes.
4. Biology.
a. The incapacity of cells or tissue from one individual to tolerate those of some other individual when an organic union of some kind is formed between them, esp. in grafting and transplantation, in the transfusion of blood, and in parasitism.
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the world > life > biology > substance > cell > [noun] > incompatibility of cells or tissue
incompatibility1904
1904 Mass. Agric. Exper. Station Techn. Bull. No. 2. 15 After a close study of a large number of these defective unions, the writer has reached the opinion that they are almost always due to the incompatibility of stock and cion.
1916 J. Loeb Organism as Whole iii. 46 A lesser though still marked degree of incompatibility exists also in lower animals for grafts from a different species.
1916 Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden 6 429 Between bloods of members of any one class there is no incompatibility in the form of agglutination.
1927 Jrnl. Agric. Res. 34 675 Reciprocal grafts between the pigmented and the nonpigmented varieties showed no incompatibility whatever, as they produced well-established unions.
1935 N. P. Sherwood Immunol. xii. 270 In discussing the incompatibility of species not closely related, Loeb mentions the rigid specificity requirements for successful skin grafting or organ transplantation.
1957 J. P. Mahlstede & E. S. Haber Plant Propagation xvi. 277 Many theories have been proposed relative to the causes of incompatibility in grafted plants.
1970 Woman's Own 3 Jan. 26/3 Expectant mothers will be immunized against the development of the Rhesus incompatibility which can affect their babies.
1971 Canad. Jrnl. Bot. 49 304/2 Parasite/host combinations are referred to by the corresponding genotypes under study which specify compatibility or incompatibility of the relationship.
b. Inability to succeed in sexual reproduction under circumstances where fertile gametes are produced and brought together; originally used mainly of failure of crossing between different species, but now usually spec. such inability (occurring in many species of fungi and angiosperms) between individuals belonging to the same species, which is genetically controlled and which usually acts to promote outbreeding.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > cross-breeding or hybridism > incompatibility
incompatibility1905
1905 Biol. Bull. 8 320 The incompatibility was less marked... In general..the eggs crossed much more readily than did the California form.
1913 W. Bateson Probl. Genetics xi. 240 Whether the incompatibility between species is to be associated with that of the self-steriles also cannot be positively asserted.
1916 A. B. Stout in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden VI. 335 The term incompatibility has been, of course, used to characterize a wide range of causes of failure in reproduction, but it can well be limited in its application to those causes existing in the plants themselves which prevent fertilization in and between plants with normal reproductive organs and gametes.
1916 A. B. Stout in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden VI. 336 We may distinguish two quite distinct types of incompatibility: 1. Anatomical incompatibility... 2. Physiological incompatibility.
1954 Adv. Genetics VI. 236 The widespread distribution and high frequency of incompatibility in the higher plants and fungi indicate that it is one of the most important outbreeding mechanisms in plants.
1966 J. R. Raper Genetics of Sexuality in Higher Fungi iv. 52 The terms ‘incompatibility’ and ‘incompatibility factors’ as applied to this and other systems of self-sterility in the fungi are of more recent origin.
1970 Bot. Gaz. 131 139 (heading) Self- and interspecific incompatibility in the Convolvulaceae.
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