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Definitions: Incompatibility |
IncompatibilityNoun1. The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time. 2. (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue). 3. The quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incompatibility" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Satire | INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Biology & Biotechnology | By extension, the inability of embryos to develop into viable offspring. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemical Industry | Term used when two or more components of a composition do not blend to produce a uniform or homogeneous mixture. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The inability of the tissues of rootstock and scion to form and maintain a permanent union after grafting. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | The holder of an elective mandate is forbidden to hold another office which would presumably be detrimental to the latter. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | The quality or state of being incompatible. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: IncompatibilitySynonyms: inconsistency (n), mutual exclusiveness (n), repugnance (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: compatibility (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Incompatibility |
| English words defined with "incompatibility": Antinomy ♦ conflict ♦ erythroblastosis fetalis ♦ fundamental ♦ histoincompatibility ♦ Incompatibleness, Incompetibility ♦ Rh incompatibility, rudimentary ♦ -ties ♦ underlying. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "incompatibility": Air, antipathy of minerals ♦ Commodore 65, Coombs' Test ♦ Federal Information Processing Standards ♦ INCOMPOSSIBLE ♦ NCR Corporation ♦ Tagged Image File Format. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Men's dormitory at night at the homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa (for unattached men). Unemployment is the primary cause of their being here. This unemployment has been the direct cause of broken homes, through divorce and incompatibility. Most of.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | This biologic incompatibility is a barrier that causes the recipient to try to destroy or reject the new organ, tissue or cells. (references) | |
Some groups of patients are transplanted less frequently than others (see Fig.3), in part, because of immunologic incompatibility. (references) | ||
Rh incompatibility is easily identified by a simple blood test routinely performed on expectant mothers and, if indicated, expectant fathers. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Russia | The local department of the Ministry of Justice in Chelyabinsk also continued to reject the local registration application of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints based on the alleged incompatibility of church activities with federal law. (references) |
Human Rights | Argentina | Cavallo's decision was based on the incompatibility of the amnesty laws with international conventions to which the Government is a party, including the American Convention on Human Rights, as well as with Article 29 of the Constitution which denies the Congress the ability to give extraordinary powers to any branch of the Government. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both -- as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man. Incompossibility, it will be seen, is only incompatibility let loose. Instead of such low language as "Go heel yourself -- I mean to kill you on sight," the words, "Sir, we are incompossible," would convey and equally significant intimation and in stately courtesy are altogether superior. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Incompatibility" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incompatibility" is used about 133 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 133 | 27,614 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "incompatibility": Blood Group Incompatibility ♦ Drug Incompatibility ♦ Rh incompatibility. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "incompatibility": para-incompatibility, self-incompatibility. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abo incompatibility | 16 |
rh incompatibility | 11 |
incompatibility sexual | 4 |
incompatibility | 2 |
chemical incompatibility | 2 |
incompatibility lubricant | 2 |
chemical household incompatibility | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "incompatibility"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | papajtueshmëri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جاهز للمقارنة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不协调性. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | inkompatibilita, nesoulad (discrepancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | inkompatibilitet (infertility), uforligelighed (infertility), uforenelighed, ufordragelighed, ublandbarhed. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | incompatibiliteit (blood incompatibility), overenigbaarheid, onverenigbaarheid (blood incompatibility), onverdraagzaamheid (intolerance), bloedgroepincompatibiliteit (blood incompatibility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ناسازگاری (Antipathy, Aversion, Conflict, Discord, Incoherence, Incongruity, Inconsistency, Inconvenience, Intransigeance, Repugnance, Variance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | inkompatibiliteetti (infertility), infertiliteetti (infertility), yhteensopimattomuus, hedelmättömyys (infertility, sterility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | incompatibilité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unverträglichkeit (alternative denial, cantankerousness, indigestibility, intolerance, quarrelsomeness), unvereinbarkeit (clash, incoherency, incongruousness, inconsistency, infringement, irreconcilableness, violation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασυμβατότητα, ασυμφωνία (descrepancy, disagreement, discord, discordance, discrepance, discrepancy, incoherence, incompatability, non-conformance, unconformity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | összeférhetetlenség (contrariety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ketidakcocokan (discrepancy, dissonance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | incompatibilit (inconsistency, infringement, violation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 配合禁忌 , 違'感 (malaise), 牴触 (conflict, contradiction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いわか" (malaise), はい"うき"き, ていしょく (being contrary or incompatible, collision, color, coloration, coloring, conflict, contradiction, occupation, permanent planting, regular work, set meal, special, steady job, suspension from office). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불"합성. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | incompatibilityay infertilidade (infertility), incompatibilidade (contradiction, incompatible, incongruity, inconsistency, infertility, repugnance), incomparável (absolute, inappropriate, incompact, matchless, nonpareil, peerless, surpassing, unapproachable, unequalled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivalled). (various references) incompatibilitate (conflict, incongruity, repugnance). (various references) несовместимость (antipathy, inconsistency). (various references) inkompatibilnost. (various references) incompatibilidad (conflict of interest, infertility). (various references) inkompatibilitet, inkompabilitet. (various references) tezat (contradiction, contrast, extreme, interference, setoff). (various references) несумісність (antipathy, contrariety, inconsistency). (various references) tính không tương hợp (incompatibleness), tính không hợp nhau (incompatibleness), tính không hợp (incompatibleness), tính kỵ nhau tính xung khắc (incompatibleness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Incompatibility" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incompatiblity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "incompatibility" (pronounced i'nkÄ'mputubi"lutē) |
| 9 | -u t u b i" l u t ē | inevitability, irritability, marketability, palatability, profitability. |
| 8 | -t u b i" l u t ē | acceptability, adaptability, compatibility, convertibility, deductibility, electability, indestructibility, instability, portability, predictability, respectability, stability, suitability, susceptibility, unpredictability. |
| 7 | -u b i" l u t ē | ability, accessibility, admissibility, advisability, affordability, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, comparability, comprehensibility, credibility, culpability, debility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, durability, eligibility, enforceability, fallibility, feasibility, flammability, flexibility, gullibility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, infallibility, inflexibility, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, miscibility, permeability, plausibility, possibility, probability, readability, reliability, responsibility, sensibility, survivability, sustainability, transferability, unavailability, unreliability, variability, viability, visibility, vulnerability. |
| 6 | -b i" l u t ē | immobility, mobility, nobility. |
| 5 | -i" l u t ē | agility, civility, docility, ductility, facility, fertility, fragility, futility, gentility, hostility, humility, incivility, infertility, motility, nonutility, senility, sterility, tranquility, utility, versatility, virility, volatility. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | abnormality, accountability, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, credulity, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, equality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, fidelity, finality, formality, frivolity, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, incredulity, individuality, inequality, infidelity, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, polity, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, quality, rationality, reality, seasonality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-i-i-i-l-m-n-o-p-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: compatibility. | |
-3 letters: incompatibly. | |
-4 letters: implication. | |
-5 letters: antibiotic, compatibly, inimitably, limitation, notability, optimality, politician, potability, topicality, tympanitic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 63 6F 6D 70 61 74 69 62 69 6C 69 74 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01100001 01110100 01101001 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n c o m p a t i b i l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0063 006F 006D 0070 0061 0074 0069 0062 0069 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438069817982678675687578758691 |
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