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I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and reviews, and it's enacted in his fiction in a mishmash of dizzying incongruities.
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Meaning of "incongruities" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INCONGRUITIES

incongruities  [ˌɪnkənˈɡruːɪtɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCONGRUITIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Incongruities 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INCONGRUITIES


amenities
əˈmiːnɪtɪz
capabilities
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪz
celebrities
sɪˈlebrɪtɪz
charities
ˈtʃærɪtɪz
communities
kəˈmjuːnɪtɪz
continuities
ˌkɒntɪˈnjuːɪtɪz
discontinuities
ˌdɪsˌkɒntɪˈnjuːɪtɪz
entities
ˈentɪtɪz
facilities
fəˈsɪlɪtɪz
fortuities
fɔːˈtjuːɪtɪz
humanities
hjuːˈmænɪtɪz
ingenuities
ˌɪndʒəˈnjuːɪtɪz
liabilities
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪz
localities
ləʊˈkælɪtɪz
minorities
maɪˈnɒrɪtɪz
perpetuities
ˌpɜːpɪˈtjuːɪtɪz
qualities
ˈkwɒlɪtɪz
securities
sɪˈkjʊərɪtɪz
universities
ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsɪtɪz
velleities
veˈliːɪtɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INCONGRUITIES

incondensability
incondensable
incondensibility
incondensible
incondite
inconditely
inconformity
incongruence
incongruent
incongruently
incongruity
incongruous
incongruously
incongruousness
inconie
inconnu
inconnue
inconscient
inconsciently
inconscionable

WORDS THAT END LIKE INCONGRUITIES

abilities
abnormalities
activities
authorities
bill of quantities
capacities
cities
commodities
disabilities
equities
identities
oddities
opportunities
parties
personalities
possibilities
priorities
quantities
realities
responsibilities
utilities

Synonyms and antonyms of incongruities in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INCONGRUITIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «incongruities» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of incongruities

Translation of «incongruities» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INCONGRUITIES

Find out the translation of incongruities to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of incongruities from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «incongruities» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不协调
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

incongruencias
570 millions of speakers

English

incongruities
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

incongruities
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التضارب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несообразности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

incongruências
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

incongruities
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

incongruités
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesanggupan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ungereimtheiten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不調和
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부적합
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Incongruities
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phi lý
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொருத்தமின்மைகளிலிருந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विसंगतता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uygunsuzluklar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incongruenze
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niespójności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

недоладності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

neconcordanțe
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δυσαρμονίες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongerymdhede
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

missförhållanden
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

incongruities
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of incongruities

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INCONGRUITIES»

The term «incongruities» is regularly used and occupies the 91.734 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of incongruities
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «incongruities».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INCONGRUITIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «incongruities» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «incongruities» 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 incongruities

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QUOTES WITH «INCONGRUITIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word incongruities.
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Joanna Scott
I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and reviews, and it's enacted in his fiction in a mishmash of dizzying incongruities.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCONGRUITIES»

Discover the use of incongruities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to incongruities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Incongruities: Who We Are and How We Pray
Rahner's liturgy of the world, baptizing infants but delaying first communion, and design of worship spaces.
Timothy Fitzgerald, David A. Lysik, Peter C. Phan, 2000
2
The N400 ERP: Semantic Vs. Evaluative Incongruities
The objective of this research was to utilize both behavioral (response times) and psychophysiological measures (ERPs--N400 & Pre-response Positivity) to uncover the cognitive mechanism responsible for the evaluative priming effect ...
Jennifer Hilda Taylor, 2008
3
Entrepreneurship: Theory, Process, and Practice
Incongruities occur when a gap or difference exists between expectations and reality. For example, when Fred Smith proposed overnight mail delivery, he was told, “If it were that profitable, the U.S. Post Office would be doing it.” It turned out  ...
Donald Kuratko, 2008
4
Democratic Incongruities: Representative Democracy in Britain
The fundamental question posed in this book is of the compatibility – both ideationally and practically – of representation with democracy.
David Judge, 2014
5
Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory
These temporal incongruities between the distributions of populations and their resources require some sort of compensatory cultural response. Minimally, resources must be stored to extend artificially their temporal availability (and hence, ...
Robert L. Bettinger, 1991
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Humor: The Psychology of Living Buoyantly
For Niebuhr, humor and faith are the human response to the incongruities experienced in life: Humor is concerned with the immediate incongruities of life and faith with the ultimate ones. Both humor and faith are expressions of the freedom of ...
Herbert M. Lefcourt, 2001
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William Shakespeare's King Lear
himself, in his speech about eclipses, mentions these incongruities early in the play: ...love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide... there is son against father: the King falls from bias of nature; there is father against child.8 It is a long speech,  ...
Ratri Ray, 2007
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Sitting in the Earth and Laughing: A Handbook of Humour
The intimate relation between humour and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Humour is concerned with the immediate incongruities of life and faith with the ultimate ones. Both humour and faith ...
Arthur Roy Eckardt
9
William Blake's recreation of gnostic myth: resolving the ...
This volume reads Blake's writings as an initiation into a divine revelation (gnosis) given to the poet-prophet.
Peter J. Sorensen, 1995
10
Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema
It may seem strange to think of a joke's laughable incongruities as equivalent to the incongruities in a gritty narrative feature such as Badlands (1973) or Chinatown. However, the incongruities in jokes are structurally identical ( although the ...
Todd Berliner, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCONGRUITIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term incongruities is used in the context of the following news items.
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North Korea - British Journal of Photography
Closer inspection however reveals incongruities between the painted elements and the new photographic ones. Alongside the stylised faces of ... «British Journal of Photography, Jul 15»
2
True Christian Love Can Change the World, Will Prevail over Hatred …
According to Velisek, there have been "incongruities" from those in the United States who attack Christians and their beliefs. "The same ... «Gospel Herald, Jul 15»
3
Ant-Man Review | Flavorwire
But such tonal incongruities — the desire to be both quip-happily irreverent and end-of-the-world serious — have become an increasingly ... «Flavorwire, Jul 15»
4
Go Set a Watchman Sells 105000 Copies in the UK on First Day of …
Though Watchman has a few stunning passages, it reads, for the most part, like a sluggishly-paced first draft, replete with incongruities, bad ... «Cultured Vultures, Jul 15»
5
Old-school jetty trout-fishing tactic - Louisiana Sportsman
Not everyone has the luxury of decades of experience in locating intricate and productive incongruities along the bottom. Even searching for ... «Louisiana Sportsman, Jul 15»
6
What the critics are saying about Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman …
She notes that though it “has a few stunning passages, it reads, for the most part, like a sluggishly-paced first draft, replete with incongruities, ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
7
My backstage memories of Live Aid 30 years ago
It was just one of many incongruities that day. Happy ones, of course. I haven't yet mentioned Freddie Mercury and Queen. They delivered ... «Henley Standard, Jul 15»
8
Gasoline Prices Surge in California, Retreat in Rest of the Country
Countless reports since have noted incongruities in the California market but no serious effort has ever been made to do anything about it. «AllGov, Jul 15»
9
Irish Roots
In this case, the first part of the address being “ancestor”, some lovely incongruities result. I collect them, God help me. They make a small but a ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
10
True Detective Review 2.04 – 'Down Will Come'
These are the kinds of incongruities that make him one of the more compelling characters on the show this season, and it will be interesting to ... «411mania.com, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Incongruities [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/incongruities>. May 2024 ».
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