Another word for inconsistency
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Noun
A marked lack of correspondence or agreement
- Lack of fitness or appropriateness
- The condition, quality, or fact of being incongruous
- Lack of harmony or agreement
- The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.
- Mutually exclusive or antagonistic qualities or things.
- A problematic situation resulting from such a disparity:
- An interruption of continuity:
- A conspicuous difference or imbalance; a disparity:
- (Uncountable) the state of being unequal; difference
- Inequality or difference, as in rank, amount, quality, etc.
- The condition or fact of being unequal, as in age, rank, or degree; difference:
- An instance of divergence or disagreement.
- Divergence or disagreement, as between facts or claims; difference.
- Archaic form of discrepancy.
- Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
- Refusal to agree or comply
- Difference of opinion
- Failure to agree; difference; incongruity; discrepancy
- A noticeable change or effect:
- A degree or amount by which things differ:
- An instance of disparity or unlikeness:
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Another word for inconsistency
Noun
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- A statement that is self-contradictory or logically untenable, though based on a valid deduction from acceptable premises.
- (Archaic) A statement contrary to common belief
- A person, situation, act, etc. that seems to have contradictory or inconsistent qualities
- The state or quality of being disproportionate or out of proportion.
- A lack of proportion; lack of symmetry; disparity
- An instance of a disproportionate relation.
- Absence of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation:
- (Music) conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding
- (Music) A combination of tones contextually considered to suggest unrelieved tension and require resolution.
- Lack of agreement, consistency, or harmony; conflict:
- The deflection of a magnetic compass needle due to magnetic influences; specif., on a ship, such deflection caused by the ship's own magnetic properties
- Deflection of a compass needle caused by local magnetic influence, especially on a ship.
- (Statistics) The difference, especially the absolute difference, between one number in a set of data and the mean of that set of data.
- The degree to which two or more things diverge.
- (Meteorology) A condition characterized by the uniform expansion in volume of a mass of air over a region, usually accompanied by fair dry weather.
- A departure from a norm; a deviation.
- (Uncountable) the state of being unlike
- (Countable) an unlike characteristic
- An instance of unlikeness; a difference.
- (Mathematics) An algebraic relation showing that a quantity is greater than or less than another quantity.
- (Astronomy) A deviation from uniformity in the apparent motion of a celestial body.
- A difference or variation in size, amount, rank, quality, social position, etc.
- The state or quality of being incongruous.
- The condition, quality, or fact of being incongruous
- Lack of harmony or agreement
- Anything that is contrary; inconsistency or discrepancy
- Something that is contrary.
- The quality or condition of being contrary.
- (Accounting) The difference between the actual costs of production and the standard or expected costs
- (Chemistry) The number of thermodynamic variables, such as temperature and pressure, required to specify a state of equilibrium of a system, given by the phase rule; the degrees of freedom of a system.
- Degree of change or difference; divergence; discrepancy
- (Uncountable) the state of being unequal; difference
- Inequality or difference, as in rank, amount, quality, etc.
- The condition or fact of being unequal, as in age, rank, or degree; difference:
- The quality of being distinct or unlike; difference.
- Absence of similarity; unlikeness; difference
- An instance or point of difference or unlikeness
- A failure or refusal to agree.
- A disparity; an inconsistency.
- Failure to agree; difference; incongruity; discrepancy
- An instance of divergence or disagreement.
- Divergence or disagreement, as between facts or claims; difference.
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