0 the fact that something is incongruous
In general, fixed and non-fixed secondary dimensions identify conditions under which the primary mental incongruity is said to be higher or lower.
Eventually, this has created an apparent incongruity between the water dispute resolution mechanism and its operational environment, thereby adversely affecting the efficiency of the former.
More recent incongruity theorists have begun to pick up on the sociological importance of this kind of deviation from expectation.
The sheer incongruity and absurdity of the comparison is the obvious source of comedy here.
And surely the incongruities of proper language, rituals, and behaviour being mocked by ' improper' beings must have been viewed as humorous.
The incongruity between extra-terrestrial beings and the settled, comfortable world they invade produces a creative tension.
Instead, he considers explaining their oddity by a semantic incongruity akin to zeugma or syllepsis.
Indeed, these incongruities were sufficiently extensive to obscure even a pandemic of historic proportion.