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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Lack of congruity or harmony; unsuitability.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Lack of concinnity, congruousness, or proportion, or an instance of such lack; unsuitableness.

Wiktionary

  1. n. lack of harmony or suitability.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Lack of concinnity or congruousness; unsuitableness.

Examples

  • “Until I sat down today to compile a review worksheet on Latin prepositions, I had never noticed an inconsistency or inconcinnity in the names of the parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.”

    Dr. Weevil

  • “10: 39: Five straight correct answers, none of which I've ever heard of: inconcinnity, scalare, caducous, venturi and forzato.”

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  • “For it seems a play with words unworthy the writer, to make Satan, who possessed all the seven, himself an 'eighth', and still worse if 'the eighth': 2. that it is not only a great and causeless inconcinnity in style, but a wanton adding of obscurity to the obscure to have, first, so carefully distinguished (c. xiii.”

    The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  1. unsuitableness

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  • jaime_d From "A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg" by Guy Davenport. Jan 19, 2010

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