incongruity

Questions about incongruity

What does incongruity mean?

incongruity means "the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate".

How many syllables are in incongruity?

incongruity has 5 syllables: in-con-gru-i-ty. The stress falls on "gru". In IPA it is /ˌɪŋkɔŋˈɹuɪti/.

What is another word for incongruity?

Close synonyms include incongruousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of incongruity?

The recorded antonyms are congruity.

Is incongruity a common word?

incongruity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.