Contradiction vs Incongruity - What's the difference?
contradiction | incongruity |
(uncountable) The act of contradicting.
(countable) A statement that contradicts itself.
(countable) a logical incompatibility among two or more elements or propositions
(logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.
The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence.
An instance or point of disagreement; a dissimilarity; a discrepancy; an inconsistency.
A thing that is incongruous.
As nouns the difference between contradiction and incongruity
is that contradiction is (uncountable) the act of contradicting while incongruity is the state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence.contradiction
English
(wikipedia contradiction)Noun
- His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
- There is a contradiction in what you say - she can't be both married and single.
- Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.