(n.) The quality or state of being incongruous; want of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety.
(n.) Disagreement of parts; want of symmetry or of harmony.
(n.) That which is incongruous; want of congruity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany, but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats.
(3) We successfully applied it in the treatment of eight fractures of the shafts of the femur or tibia which would not unite because of infection, soft tissue interposition or gross incongruity of fragments.
(4) Fifty-nine Salter-Harris III and IV lesions of the medial malleolus, Tillaux fractures, and triplane fractures were examined after 9 (3-32) years to assess the frequency of late symptoms, deformity, joint incongruity, and secondary arthrosis.
(5) The thymus is the first organ in the body to age, which seems incongruent considering its cardinal role in the immune system.
(6) Children recalled incongruent material more than congruent material on the comprehension-monitoring task.
(7) One joint was congruent, in agreement with the hypotheses, but the other was incongruent.
(8) Nothing in the present findings, however, is incongruent with the possibility of an association between low platelet MAO activity and bipolar affective disorder.
(9) Results showed significantly longer VRTs in the Accuracy group, and more errors in the Speed group to right-field projections (initial left hemisphere input) of the incongruent color-words during the color-naming condition.
(10) In addition, background music was either congruent or incongruent with the affect of an episode's outcome.
(11) Examination of 29 cases of fracture of the distal radius with restricted motion or persistent pain in 22 patients showed that most had been caused by incongruity of the distal radioulnar joint or by rotational malalignment in supination or pronation.
(12) Incongruous and illusory depth cues, arising from 'interference patterns' produced by overlapping linear grids at the edges of escalator treads, may contribute to the disorientation experienced by some escalator users, which in turn may contribute to the causes of some of the many escalator accidents which occur.
(13) Congruent students did in fact achieve significantly higher cumulative GPA and science GPA than did incongruent students.
(14) In Experiment 1, at a stimulus onset asynchrony of 300 ms, congruous situations showed 59 ms of facilitation while incongruous situations did not differ from the baseline.
(15) The reasons for post-traumatic contracture of the elbow could be intrinsic such as interposed fragments, intra-articular adhesions, incongruity of the articular surfaces--or extrinsic--like contractures of the capsule and ligaments, adhesions of different layers, ectopic bone formations.
(16) In one, incongruous homonymous hemianopsia was accompanied by a decrease in visual acuity in one eye from chiasmal involvement.
(17) Congruence between the object display and the sentence produced significantly higher recall and clustering than the incongruence or control conditions.
(18) She laughs raucously again, mirth appearing to be, incongruously, her way of acknowledging pain.
(19) Once incongruent persistence is suspected, the possibility of parental falsification of symptoms must be faced.
(20) The proverbs appeared either in their original form or with their final word changed to be incongruous with the sentence context.
Inconsistency
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility.
(n.) Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument, or narration; that which is inconsistent.
(n.) Want of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data are inconsistent with an involvement of A-current reduction in LTP.
(2) Results were inconsistent with both the feature detector fatigue and response bias hypothesis.
(3) The lack of TBM prior to germinal center development and their absence in aged mice are inconsistent with the concept that TBM are required for the induction of the germinal center reaction.
(4) Moreover, it was more apparent in less differentiated tumors in which the granular pattern was often absent or inconsistent.
(5) Many governments try to protect their tax base through national blacklists based on criteria that are often unclear and inconsistently applied.
(6) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
(7) It was concluded that 1) late ejection was quantitatively important to LV pumping, 2) behavior during late ejection was inconsistent with E(t)-R, and 3) ad hoc modification of E(t)-R models was not likely to yield LV pumping models that could satisfactorily reproduce instantaneous P(t) and Q(t) behavior over the entire ejection period.
(8) In these conditions the changes of the phrenic activity were weak and inconsistent.
(9) The only inconsistency in the mariner gene phylogeny is in the placement of the Zaprionus mariner sequence, which clusters with mariner from Drosophila teissieri and Drosophila yakuba in the melanogaster species subgroup.
(10) Meningococcal antisera raised against LPS from MGC A, B, and C also provided good protection against endotoxemia from the homologous capsular groups, but it was inconsistent against the heterologous serogroups.
(11) Twenty-three percent employed no birth control and 27 percent used diaphragms, the majority either inconsistently or incorrectly.
(12) Physicians are urged to reject involvement in rationing as inconsistent with their role as patient advocates and to support technology assessment, fee revisions, and more stringent self regulation as ways to discourage malpractice suits.
(13) The multiple reasons for an inconsistency of the epidemiological data are discussed.
(14) A 22 year old female-to-male half-Aboriginal transsexual had been exposed to gross neglect and violence, separation and inconsistent cultural supports during childhood.
(15) An algorithm is implemented to determine the form and phase shift for inconsistent type II quadrupoles for any space group having glide or screw-axis translations which are not a consequence of lattice centering.
(16) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
(17) In other words, absolute levels of these brain substances were inconsistent with respect to obesity across experiments.
(18) TGF-beta 1 regulated those differentiation markers of osteoblast phenotypes, although the effects were inconsistent depending on serum concentrations.
(19) These results are inconsistent with predictions of wavelength dependence inherent in recent theories of ocular scatter.
(20) The terminology of the pericardial sinuses and recesses has been inconsistent, and the authors propose a nomenclature for standardizing the names of the recesses of the serous pericardium.