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Meaning of "incommensurability" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INCOMMENSURABILITY

incommensurability  [ˌɪnkəˈmenʃərəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCOMMENSURABILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Incommensurability is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INCOMMENSURABILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of incommensurability in the English dictionary

The definition of incommensurability in the dictionary is the quality of being incommensurable.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INCOMMENSURABILITY


censurable
ˈsɛnʃərəbəl
comparable
ˈkɒmpərəbəl
conjecturable
kənˈdʒɛktʃərəbəl
considerable
kənˈsɪdərəbəl
culturable
ˈkʌltʃərəbəl
desirable
dɪˈzaɪərəbəl
durable
ˈdjʊərəbəl
fracturable
ˈfræktʃərəbəl
immensurable
ɪˈmɛnʃərəbəl
incommensurable
ˌɪnkəˈmɛnʃərəbəl
manufacturable
ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃərəbəl
memorable
ˈmɛmərəbəl
nurturable
ˈnɜːtʃərəbəl
puncturable
ˈpʌŋktʃərəbəl
rupturable
ˈrʌptʃərəbəl
saturable
ˈsætʃərəbəl
triturable
ˈtrɪtʃərəbəl
uncapturable
ʌnˈkæptʃərəbəl
unrecapturable
ˌʌnriːˈkæptʃərəbəl
vulnerable
ˈvʌlnərəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INCOMMENSURABILITY

incoming
incommensurable
incommensurableness
incommensurably
incommensurate
incommensurately
incommensurateness
incommiscible
incommode
incommodious
incommodiously
incommodiousness
incommodities
incommodity
incommunicability
incommunicable
incommunicableness
incommunicably
incommunicado
incommunicative

WORDS THAT END LIKE INCOMMENSURABILITY

ability
accessibility
availability
capability
compatibility
disability
durability
facility
flexibility
functionality
liability
mobility
nobility
possibility
probability
reliability
responsibility
stability
sustainability
utility
visibility

Synonyms and antonyms of incommensurability in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «incommensurability» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INCOMMENSURABILITY

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The translations of incommensurability from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «incommensurability» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不可通约性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inconmensurabilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

incommensurability
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

incommensurability
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

incommensurability
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несоизмеримость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

incomensurabilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

incommensurability
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

incommensurabilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak ketara
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Inkommensurabilität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

非整合
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잴 수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Incommensurability
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô ước
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

incommensurability
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असमानता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kıyaslanamazlığına
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incommensurabilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niewspółmierność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

несумірність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

incomensurabilitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ασυμμετρία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onvergelykbaarheidstese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gripbara bristen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

incommensurability
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of incommensurability

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INCOMMENSURABILITY»

The term «incommensurability» is normally little used and occupies the 115.373 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INCOMMENSURABILITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «incommensurability» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «incommensurability» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about incommensurability

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCOMMENSURABILITY»

Discover the use of incommensurability in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to incommensurability and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason
And what are the implications for moral and legal decision making? This book struggles with these questions, and arrives at distinctly different answers.
Ruth Chang, 1997
2
Judgment, Rhetoric, and the Problem of Incommensurability: ...
Nola J. Heidlebaugh considers the question of how, in an age of diversity and pluralism, contemporary society can productively address divisive issues.
Nola J. Heidlebaugh, 2001
3
Incommensurability and Related Matters
While it offers new work, and new directions of discussion, on the topic of incommensurability, the book also recapitulates the history of the discussion of the topic that has taken place within the literature on incommensurability.
Paul Hoyningen-Huene, H. Sankey, 2010
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Incommensurability and Translation: Kuhnian Perspectives on ...
This book explores an evolutionary theory of scientific knowledge, and provides the basis for a new linguistic approach to methodology.
Rema Rossini Favretti, Giorgio Sandri, Roberto Scazzieri, 1999
5
All in the Family: On Community and Incommensurability
Yet families are not necessarily harmonious units. Ferguson takes up several situations to think about how familial attachments can offer insight into the creation of a pluralistic and democratic society./div
Kennan Ferguson, 2012
6
Incommensurability and Cross-language Communication
Xinli Wang challenges th
Xinli Wang, 2007
7
Incommensurability and Commensuration: The Common Denominator
This book presents the first detailed examination of incommensurability in the value-theoretical sense.
Fred D'Agostino, 2003
8
Rationality, relativism and incommensurability
The underlying aim of the book is to show how the phenomenon of extensive conceptual and methodological variation in science need not give rise to a thorough-going epistemic or conceptual relativism.
Howard Sankey, 1997
9
Equality and Diversity: Value Incommensurability and the ...
This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism, existentialism, and elements of post ...
Steve Smith, 2011
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Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison:: ...
THE. INCOMMENSURABILITY. OF. EXPERIMENTAL. PRACTICES: AN. INCOMMENSURABILITY. OF. WHAT? AN. INCOMMENSURABILITY. OF. A. THIRD. TYPE? LÉNA SOLER Abstract In the 1990s, authors such as Andrew Pickering and ...
Lena Soler, Howard Sankey, Paul Hoyningen-Huene, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCOMMENSURABILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term incommensurability is used in the context of the following news items.
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Greece debacle marks the failure of German leadership in Europe
When Kissinger writes that 'a statesman will tend to have great difficulty legitimising his policy domestically, because of the incommensurability ... «The Interpreter, Jul 15»
2
MYSTIC UNIVERSE
The incommensurability between the lunar and the solar reckonings led to the search for ever-increasing cycles to synchronise the motions of ... «mydigitalfc.com, Jun 15»
3
The Awkward Christian
The self-assertive shrillness of protest arises because the facts of incommensurability ensure that protestors can never win [or lose] an ... «First Things, May 15»
4
The wounds of Baghdad's Frankenstein
... internalized discourses of Iraq's “ungovernability”, often invoked by media and political pendants commenting on the “incommensurability” of ... «Open Democracy, May 15»
5
Feminist icon Vivian Gornick, still in the fight: A conversation with …
Gornick, as you meet her in the book, marvels at how she is nourished both by solitude and by human contact, and at the incommensurability of ... «Salon, May 15»
6
Consumer Power and Fair Electricity Market
The seeming incommensurability of interests will require an independent umpire. Such independence is helped when the contending groups ... «THISDAY Live, May 15»
7
Will Self: Oscar Wilde, champagne socialism and why I'm voting …
... I certainly understood there was a major problem with being a socialist: namely, the incommensurability of the means available and the ends ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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Masse R. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of psychological distress: methodological complementarity and ontological incommensurability. «BMC Blogs Network, Apr 15»
9
You Have To Fight For Change: Algiers Interviewed
... such useful tools when exploring this musical past, representing in some senses incommensurability and the violence of capitalist exchange. «The Quietus, Apr 15»
10
Calvinist Attempts to Rescue God's Character Considered and Refuted
My second response is that the claim (which Sproul and many other Calvinists make) that there is an incommensurability between the two ... «Patheos, Mar 15»

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