Incongruity and Parallelism

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Incongruity noun - Someone or something with qualities or features that seem to conflict with one another.

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Parallelism is an antonym for incongruity.

Nearby Words: incongruous, incongruously

Parallelism noun - The quality or state of having many qualities in common.

Usage example: the striking parallelism between the two crimes got police to thinking that they were committed by the same mastermind

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Incongruity is an antonym for parallelism.

Nearby Words: parallel, parallelize, paralleled, parallelise, parallelized

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