incongruity
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The quality or state of being incongruous; want of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety.
Disagreement of parts; want of symmetry or of harmony.
That which is incongruous; want of congruity.
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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
Interdeterminacy was a figure-ground problem arising from incongruity between the visual bias of classical science and the new acoustic sensibilities.
What, I believe, produces in me the deep feeling, in which I live, of incongruity with others, is that most think with sensitivity, while I feel with thought.