incompatibility Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
    mutual exclusiveness; repugnance; inconsistency.
  2. noun (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
  3. noun the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination

WordNet

In`com*pat`i*bil"i*ty noun
Etymology
Cf. F. incompatibilité.
Wordforms
plural -ties
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.

Webster 1913