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Incongruousness

noun
1.
The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate.  Synonym: incongruity.





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"Incongruousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... accord but ill with those of 1772, assumed by the other characters." "The effect of the scene is marred by it," writes the critic. And ten years before Leigh Hunt had admitted into the columns of his Tatler many letters dwelling upon the defects of stage costume in regard to incongruousness and general lack of accuracy. One correspondent complains of a performance of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at Covent Garden, in which Bartley had played Falstaff "in a dress belonging to the age of the first ...
— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook
 
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Words linked to "Incongruousness" :   incompatibility, congruousness, congruity, incongruous, irony



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