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Incompatibility

noun

(pl. incompatibilities)

The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time. Synonyms: inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance.

(immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue).

The quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination. Antonym: compatibility.

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"Incompatibility" Quotes from Famous Books

... discipline; and in 1230 Gregory IX definitely laid it down that the suspension of a priest living in mortal sin merely affects him as an individual and does not invalidate his office as regards others. But such declarations did nothing to meet the common feeling of the great incompatibility between the awful powers with which the Church clothed her ministers and the sinful lives led by a large proportion of the ...

— The Church and the Empire - Being an Outline of the History of the Church - from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 • D. J. Medley

... tradition, which he is compelled to treat more or less as divine revelation. The whole religious position has been metamorphosed by scientific discovery; and what theologian or philosopher has ever come near to solving the incompatibility of the apparent inflexibility of natural law with the no less apparent liberty of moral choice? Theologians and philosophers may, if they choose, attempt to crush the speculations of an experimentalist in life, though I think they would be better employed in welcoming them as an instance ...

— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson

... not be necessary to dwell at any length on the third difficulty—the incompatibility of divine sovereignty and grace with ...

— Christianity and Ethics - A Handbook of Christian Ethics • Archibald B. C. Alexander

... Sexual incompatibility is well known to exist; prominent examples being Augustus and Livia; Napoleon and Josephine. It is also a well-known fact that frigidity is a cause of barrenness. A short separation of husband and wife is often salutary in ...

— The Four Epochs of Woman's Life • Anna M. Galbraith

... announces that God is not pacified by sacrifices, nor by offerings, nor by frivolous rites. It substitutes in place of these, supernatural virtues, of which I believe I have sufficiently proved the inutility, the impossibility, and the incompatibility with the well-being of man living in society. The Son of God, by the writers of the New Testament, is set at variance with himself; for he destroys in one place what he establishes in another; and, moreover, the priests have appropriated to themselves all the principles ...

— Letters to Eugenia - or, a Preservative Against Religious Prejudices • Baron d'Holbach

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