discongruity

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ congruity.

Noun

discongruity (countable and uncountable, plural discongruities)

  1. incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness
    • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, , published 1677, →OCLC:
      intrinſecal discongruity of the one to the other

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