incompatibility
n.
incongruity; lack of harmony or suitability, incompatibility; inconsistency; opposition
Incompatibility
incompatibility
Noun
1. the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
(synonym) mutual exclusiveness, inconsistency, repugnance
(hypernym) contradictoriness
2. (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
(hypernym) physiological state, physiological condition
(hyponym) histoincompatibility
(classification) immunology
3. the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination
(antonym) compatibility
(hypernym) characteristic
(hyponym) conflict
Incompatibility
(n.)
The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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incompatibility
Synonyms and related words:
Discordia, Eris, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry, autism, bashfulness, chill, chilliness, clash, clashing, coldness, conflict, contention, contrariety, contrast, coolness, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disaffinity, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity, disproportion, disproportionateness, dissent, dissimilarity, dissociability, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity, enmity, equivocality, far cry, friction, frost, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, iciness, inaccordance, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibleness, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inhospitality, inimicality, insociability, irreconcilability, jangle, jar, mischief, mixture, mopishness, moroseness, nonconformability, nonconformity, noncooperation, odds, open conflict, opposition, otherness, oxymoron, paradox, personal conflict, rub, self-containment, self-contradiction, self-sufficiency, separateness, social incompatibility, strain, strained relations, sullenness, tension, unamiability, uncommunicativeness, uncompanionability, unconformability, unconformity, uncongeniality, uncordiality, unfriendliness, ungeniality, ungregariousness, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unpleasantness, unsociability, unsociableness, variance, variation, variegation, variety
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