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Incompatibility

noun

(pl. incompatibilities)

The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time. Synonyms: inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance.

(immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue).

The quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination. Antonym: compatibility.

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"Incompatibility" Quotes from Famous Books

... the sweeping clause against 'all particularities and details of every kind' is clearly got rid of. The undecided state of Sir Joshua's feelings on this subject of the incompatibility between the whole and the details is strikingly manifested in two short passages which follow each other in the space of two pages. Speaking of some pictures of Paul Veronese and Rubens as distinguished by the dexterity ...

— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt

... Loisy, in his "Quelques Lettres," states, "If there is one thing above others that is obvious, but as to which the most powerful of theological interests have caused a deliberate or unconscious blindness, it is the profound, the irreducible incompatibility of the Synoptical Gospels, and the Fourth Gospel. If Jesus spoke and acted as he is said to have spoken and acted in the first three Gospels, he did not speak and act as he is reported to ...

— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... villainies of Nero (which no doubt was pleasing to his patrons) and the amours of Drusilia, the daughter of Agrippa I. But of the rising discontent of the Jewish people in Palestine we have no clear picture. Josephus fails as in the Wars to bring out the inner incompatibility of the Roman and the Jewish outlook, and represents, in an unimaginative, matter-of-fact, Romanizing way, that it was simply particular excesses—the rapacity of a Felix, the knavery of a Florus—which were the cause of the Rebellion. This is just what a Roman would have said, and when the ...

— Josephus • Norman Bentwich

... that the attributes connoted by "man" never exist without, but that they never exist with, those connoted by "omnipotent:" from which, together with the minor premise, it is concluded, that the same incompatibility exists between the attribute omnipotence and those constituting a king. In a similar manner we might analyze any other example of ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... droopily in her chair for a long while, pondering mankind and womankind and their mutual dependence and incompatibility. It would be nice to be married if one could stay single at the same time. But it was hopelessly impossible to eat your cake ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

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