Meaning & use
Incongruencies
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Instances or elements that are inconsistent or not in agreement with each other.
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The auditors flagged several incongruencies between the two financial reports.
Readers noticed incongruencies in the timeline of events described in the novel.
A note on using this word
"Incongruities" is the more traditional plural form, but "incongruencies" is increasingly common, especially in technical and business writing.
Words with a similar meaning
inconsistenciesdiscrepanciescontradictions
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Words with an opposite meaning
consistenciesagreements
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