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incompatibility: the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination; the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time; (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)

unfriendliness collapse: an unfriendly disposition; dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness

antinomy collapse: a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable

unpleasantness collapse: the quality of giving displeasure; "the recent unpleasantness of the weather"; the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling

oxymoron collapse: conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

paradox collapse: (logic) a statement that contradicts itself; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"

far cry collapse: a disappointing disparity; "it was a far cry from what he had expected"; distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry; "it's a far cry from here"

autism collapse: (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people

discrepancy collapse: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion"; an event that departs from expectations

disproportion collapse: lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something

ambiguity collapse: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning; an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context

separateness collapse: political independence; "seeking complete political separateness for Taiwan"

variance collapse: an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation); "a zoning variance"; the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value

frost collapse: United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963); the formation of frost or ice on a surface; ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside); damage by frost; "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown"; cover with frost; "ice crystals frosted the glass"; provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance; "frost the glass"; "she frosts her hair"; decorate with frosting; "frost a cake"

friction collapse: effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure; the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another

unorthodoxy collapse: the quality of being unorthodox; any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position

incongruity collapse: the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate

inequality collapse: lack of equality; "the growing inequality between rich and poor"

discord collapse: strife resulting from a lack of agreement; disagreement among those expected to cooperate; lack of agreement or harmony

tension collapse: the action of stretching something tight; "tension holds the belt in the pulleys"; (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body; "the direction of maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of the shear"; a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature); "there is a tension created between narrative time and movie time"; "there is a tension between these approaches to understanding history"; (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"; the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body"

inconsistency collapse: the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts

mischief collapse: reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others

odds collapse: the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring; the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; "he offered odds of two to one"

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