incongruousness

Questions about incongruousness

What does incongruousness mean?

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

How many syllables are in incongruousness?

incongruousness has 5 syllables and divides as in-con-gru-ou-sness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for incongruousness?

Close synonyms include incongruity. 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 incongruousness?

The recorded antonyms are congruousness.

Is incongruousness a common word?

incongruousness 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.