What's the difference between disagreement and discongruity?
Disagreement
Definition:
(n.) The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.
(n.) Unsuitableness; unadaptedness.
(n.) Difference of opinion or sentiment.
(n.) A falling out, or controversy; difference.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although individual IRB chairpersons and oncology investigators may have important differences of opinion concerning the ethics of phase I trials, these disagreements do not represent a widespread area of ethical conflict in clinical research.
(2) In spite of this fundamental disagreement, they were both relieved that President Obama has suspended his plan to launch missiles against Syria .
(3) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
(4) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.
(5) We report the use of a technique for developing guidelines which explicitly seeks to identify areas of agreement and disagreement, and focuses on the reasons that particular decisions were made and the causes of disagreement.
(6) Rating disagreements were resolved by a skilled dermatologist who acted as adjudicator.
(7) Disagreement in differentiation between simple and complex partial seizures (CPS) probably reflects the limitations of the clinical method rather than of the questionnaire itself.
(8) But over the Christmas period the Cahuzac story has continued to dominate headlines as some newspapers suggested Hollande might have a cabinet reshuffle both to detract from the Mediapart allegations and to draw a line under government disagreements over the handling of France's crisis-hit steel industry.
(9) The difference in actual withdrawal scores and amount of shared variance between the observer and self-ratings were used as indices of disagreement for each individual subject.
(10) Unexpected reactions in disagreement with H-2 genetics were detected in both tumours but not in fibroblast line.
(11) Disagreement between observers concerning 11 (11%) of the patients resulted from differences of opinion about whether minor changes in sellar outline represented an abnormality or merely a normal variation.
(12) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
(13) Consequently, discussion and disagreement about the disease is common and some of these aspects are outlined here.
(14) The use of phenylpropanolamine (PPA) as an anorectic has provoked commentary and disagreement.
(15) There were 23 disagreements between paired readers resulting in an overall interobserver reliability of 95.7 per cent.
(16) Although much more information is being disclosed to cancer patients than in the past, there is still considerable disagreement about how much information should be conveyed.
(17) Presently a serious disagreement is brewing between the contested president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , and the speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, over government subsidies.
(18) Disagreements among staff about the appropriateness of clinical decisions can lower staff morale and negatively affect the work environment.
(19) The shutdown of oil production over a disagreement on how much South Sudan would pay Sudan for using Khartoum's pipelines threatens to exacerbate conditions in South Sudan, which has some of the worst development indicators in the world, particularly in health and education.
(20) Disagreements that did occur tended to involve organisms that were drug susceptible by the Autobac 1 system but intermediate or resistant by the other two methods.
Discongruity
Definition:
(n.) Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this report is to clarify the issues and discongruities between educational preparation of doctoral program graduates and employer expectations (educational institutions), and to stimulate thinking concerning strategies that might be used by doctoral programs to more effectively prepare graduates to deal with an integrated professional role, including that of faculty.
(2) Drop-outs differ from successfully treated OCD's in five respects: they appear to be less obsessive-compulsive; they have more discongruent treatment expectations; they are more critical of the therapist; they experience less anxiety in carrying out homework assignments; they less frequently come under pressure from people close to them.
(3) These discongruities on the dentist-patient relationship are discussed as a barrier to utilization.
(4) Inability of the cortex to contend with discongruent speech input from the two ears may be a factor contributing to the rejection of binaural hearing aids in some individuals.
(5) Expectations of and orientations toward the importance of dental care were found discongruent between the two groups of respondents.
(6) However, because of prominent vascular changes in the cervix and lower uterine segment, there appeared to be a cephalo-pelvic discongruency.