incongruity

Noun

incongruity (countable and uncountable, plural incongruities)

1. The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence.
   • I was told that the Australian Government had had to send my name to London before agreeing to my appointment. My credentials were actually addressed to Her Majesty, despite the fact that the Government of the United Kingdom had recognized the Chinese Communist regime in Peking as early as 1950. No...1983, James C. H. Shen, “Rejoining the Government”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42

   Synonyms:

   incongruence, incongruency

   Antonyms:

   congruence, congruency, congruity

2. An instance or point of disagreement.

   Synonyms:

   dissimilarity, discrepancy, inconsistency

3. A thing that is incongruous.