incongruousness

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Noun
  • Likewise, the airy comedy (boosted by Thomas Newman’s sprightly if familiar-sounding score) insists on the seeming incongruity between the film’s lovely setting and its darker subject matter.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In contemplating the religious system of the Aztecs, one is struck with its apparent incongruity, as if some portion of it had emanated from a comparatively refined people, open to gentle influences, while the rest breathes a spirit of unmitigated ferocity.
    Sebastian Purcell August 18, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • According to the company, real-world factors such as dynamic inconsistencies, sensor noise and latency, actuator delays and nonlinearities, and variable ground properties can cause strategies optimized in simulation to slip or destabilize in practice.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Detection is the biggest hurdle A significant factor in the inconsistency from state to state is that there is no standardized way to measure drug impairment as there is with blood alcohol content.
    Andrew Yockey, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Will the new process lead to scenarios of moral incongruence?
    London School of Economics, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Puberty blockers, which cause no permanent changes, are used to pause irreversible physical changes while families consider what care is appropriate for a child with gender incongruence.
    Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • This often leads to incompatibility between vendors’ equipment, raising integration costs and risking IT and facility lifecycle mismatch.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
  • This incompatibility often requires significant upgrades, workarounds or custom interfaces that must be designed and built.
    John Clemons, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Incongruousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incongruousness. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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