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Incommensurate adj.

Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.

Not of equal of sufficient measure or extent; not adequate; as, our means are incommensurate to our wants.

Synonyms: Inadequate; insufficient; disproportionate.

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Etymology of 'Incommensurate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incommensurate" Quotes from Famous Books

... to see a connection between apprehending those difficulties, however keenly, and multiplying them to any extent, and doubting the doctrines to which they are attached. Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate. There of course may be difficulties in the evidence; but I am speaking of difficulties intrinsic to the doctrines, or to their compatibility with each other. A man may be annoyed that he cannot work out a mathematical problem, of which the answer is or is not given to him, without doubting that ...

— Apologia pro Vita Sua • John Henry Newman

... and worse defect in a philosophy than that of contradicting our active propensities is to give them no object whatever to press against. A philosophy whose principle is so incommensurate with our most intimate powers as to deny them all {83} relevancy in universal affairs, as to annihilate their motives at one blow, will be even more unpopular than pessimism. Better face the enemy than the eternal Void! This is why materialism will always fail of universal adoption, however ...

— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James

Words linked to "Incommensurate" : commensurate, unequal, incommensurable