Hypertext Webster Gateway: "incompatibility"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Incompatibility \In`com*pat`i*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {-ties}. [Cf.
F. incompatibilit['e].]
The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency;
irreconcilableness.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

incompatibility
n 1: the relation between propositions that cannot both be true
at the same time [syn: {mutual exclusiveness}, {inconsistency},
{repugnance}]
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 [ant: {compatibility}]


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