as in paradoxes
someone or something with qualities or features that seem to conflict with one another
she's an incongruity: an impeccably groomed woman who keeps a messy house
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Recent Examples of incongruities
In another show, with a lesser writer, such incongruities could be read as character inconsistencies, accidental oversights, mistakes.
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026
Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incongruities
paradoxes
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Thin lids of ice could have sheltered lakes on ancient Mars and kept surface water liquid even as the Red Planet's climate became freezing, according to new research that could solve one of the greater paradoxes of Martian history.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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Those paradoxes of her personality?—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Incongruities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incongruities. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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