Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-COM-PAT-I-BIL'I-TY
IN-COM-PAS'SION-ATE-NESSIN-COM-PAT'I-BLE
IN-COM-PAT-I-BIL'I-TY, n. [from incompatible.]
- 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.
- Irreconcilable disagreement. During the revolution in France, incompatibility of temper was deemed a sufficient cause for divorcing man and wife.
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