noun
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The state of two or more things not fitting together or not matching, in a way that seems strange.
No one seemed to notice the incongruity of a luxury hotel standing in the middle of a slum.
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noun
A point of disagreement or inconsistency between things.
The auditor flagged several incongruities between the receipts and the company's records.
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incongruities
Etymology
From Middle French incongruité, from Medieval Latin incongruitās, from Latin incongruus.
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