In general, fixed and non-fixed secondary dimensions identify conditions under which the primary mentalincongruityis said to be higher or lower.From theCambridge English Corpus
Eventually, this has created an apparentincongruitybetween the water dispute resolution mechanism and its operational environment, thereby adversely affecting the efficiency of the former.From theCambridge English Corpus
More recentincongruitytheorists have begun to pick up on the sociological importance of this kind of deviation from expectation.From theCambridge English Corpus
The sheerincongruityand absurdity of the comparison is the obvious source of comedy here.From theCambridge English Corpus
And surely the incongruities of proper language, rituals, and behaviour being mocked by ' improper' beings must have been viewed as humorous.From theCambridge English Corpus
Theincongruitybetween extra-terrestrial beings and the settled, comfortable world they invade produces a creative tension.From theCambridge English Corpus
Instead, he considers explaining their oddity by a semanticincongruityakin to zeugma or syllepsis.From theCambridge English Corpus
Indeed, these incongruities were sufficiently extensive to obscure even a pandemic of historic proportion.From theCambridge English Corpus
The seemingincongruitybetween the visual and the tactile can be explained by the laws of refraction.From theCambridge English Corpus
Mentalincongruitycan exist in the primary and the secondary domains of the mental system.From theCambridge English Corpus
Primaryincongruityis greater the more the standard is dominant.From theCambridge English Corpus
I hypothesize that a president facingincongruitywill identify those 43.From theCambridge English Corpus
The theory of mentalincongruity, with a specific application to loneliness among widowed men and women.From theCambridge English Corpus
More work is needed to explain convincingly theincongruitybetween micro-economic bottlenecks and macroeconomic growth.From theCambridge English Corpus
Reading senseless sentences: brain potentials re-ect semanticincongruity.From theCambridge English Corpus
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