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Incongruity


INCONGRU'ITY, noun [in and congruity.]

1. Want of congruity; impropriety; inconsistency; absurdity; unsuitableness of one thing to another. The levity of youth in a grave divine, is deemed an incongruity between manners and profession.

2. Disagreement of parts; want of symmetry.