Definition for IN-COM-PAT-I-BIL'I-TY

IN-COM-PAT-I-BIL'I-TY, n. [from incompatible.]

  1. Inconsistency; that quality or state of a thing which renders it impossible that it should subsist or be consistent with something else. There is a permanent incompatibility between truth and falsehood.
  2. Irreconcilable disagreement. During the revolution in France, incompatibility of temper was deemed a sufficient cause for divorcing man and wife.

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