Noun
The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts. Gilbert Ryle
Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other. Kenneth Boulding
The most important component of the incompatibility between science and religion is religion's dependence on faith. Jerry Coyne
In these ways the war in Vietnam is poisoning and brutalizing our domestic life. Psychological incompatibility has proven to be more controlling than financial feasibility, and the Great Society has become a sick society. J. William Fulbright
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. Leo Tolstoy
INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache. Ambrose Bierce