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incongruityin‧con‧gru‧i‧ty /ˌɪnkənˈɡruːəti/ noun (plural incongruities) - Another incongruity was that between de Gaulle's ambition and the resources at his disposal.
- Behind their departing backs, Ladislaw laughs at the incongruity of the engaged couple.
- Like his entire tenure as chairman, the scene had an element of incongruity that amounted to the surreal.
- One was the incongruity between de Gaulle's ambitions and the needs of a nation on the breadline.
- There is another sort of incongruity in the materials.
- There were fatal incongruities about grandeur in the circumstances of 1944-46.
- Thus Hazlitt piles up instances of how humour results from surprise, incongruity, absurdity and misunderstanding.
[countable, uncountable] the fact that something is strange, unusual, or unsuitable in a particular situation: The incongruity of her situation struck Gina with unpleasant force.incongruity between He didn’t see the slightest incongruity between the idealism of his plays and his own morals. |