Meaning & use
incongruency
A lack of agreement or harmony between things that are expected to match or fit together.
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There was a clear incongruency between what he said and how he acted.
Reviewers noted an incongruency between the report's summary and its data.
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'Incongruity' is the more traditional form of the noun; 'incongruency' is a common, accepted variant.
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