congruities

States of agreement

Congruities are instances of agreement, harmony, or correspondence between things.

The word appears most often in its negative form—incongruities get more attention than things that fit together as expected.

When used, congruities usually highlight surprising or satisfying alignments: The congruities between their stories suggested they were telling the truth.

agreement

accord

Harmony between parties

unanimity · correspondence · compatibility · conformity · alignment · harmony · consistency · coherence · assent · compliance

consistency

uniformity

State of being identical

constancy · stability · reliability · homogeneity · continuity · steadiness · persistence · invariability · permanence · compatibility

geometric

correspondence

Exchanged written communication

proportionality · symmetry · isometry · parallelism · coincidence · matching · overlay · mapping · transformation · reflection

Opposites
alignment/correspondence

congruitiesincongruities

Things lacking harmony together

mismatches · incompatibilities · conflicts · discrepancies · inconsistencies

logical/geometric consistency

congruitiesincongruities

Things lacking harmony together

incongruences · dissimilarities · nonconformities · irregularities · anomalies

Family

congruence, congruent, incongruous, congruity, incongruity, incongruent, congruous, incongruously, incongruence

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