Thesaurus results for INCONGRUITIES

incongruities

noun

plural of incongruity

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 Petzold marvelled at the incongruities. —

Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026 Ridge’s equal deftness at the high end and the low is one of many apparent incongruities that the winery has managed to balance comfortably. —

Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2026 Plehn finds the bottom-quark incongruities intriguing. —

IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026 In another show, with a lesser writer, such incongruities could be read as character inconsistencies, accidental oversights, mistakes. —

Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026

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paradoxes

Noun

The only problem is, negotiating and understanding the subsequent paradoxes — which writer/director Shane Carruth made little effort to simplify — requires a PhD in high-level physics.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2026
These paradoxes have defined—or plagued—the theory since its inception more than a century ago.

— Tim Folger, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026