Thesaurus results for INCONGRUITIES

incongruities

noun

plural of incongruity

as in paradoxes

someone or something with qualities or features that seem to conflict with one another she's an incongruity: an impeccably groomed woman who keeps a messy house

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Recent Examples of incongruities The movie sanitizes the past and removes its tang, its pungency, leaving a craving for contact with nature, with raw experience, with incongruities and accidents and anything but what fits, in lieu of such synthetic sophistication. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2026 Both shows attempted to offer a perspective on authentic Italian style, with Milan's incongruities as an underlying theme. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 26 Sep. 2026 Ridge’s equal deftness at the high end and the low is one of many apparent incongruities that the winery has managed to balance comfortably. — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2026 Plehn finds the bottom-quark incongruities intriguing. — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026 In another show, with a lesser writer, such incongruities could be read as character inconsistencies, accidental oversights, mistakes. — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026

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paradoxes

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Issues explored here are the racist roots of American real estate, the rise of the civil rights movement, the price paid by radicals who risk their personal safety for a cause, and the paradoxes of gentrification.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Her account opens with an acute examination of the paradoxes of willing (an example of how boldly this memoir follows its philosophical interests).

— James Wood, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

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