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US
/ˈkɔnɡɹuəns/
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[ UK /kˈɒnɡɹuːəns/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒnɡɹuːəns/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
How To Use congruence In A Sentence
- Motion sickness is attributed to an incongruence in the sensory input from the vestibular, visual, and somatosensory systems.
- Bal gives a personal, nuanced account of her own wrestling with the incongruence of a black minstrel tradition amidst The Netherlands' sea of whiteness.
- From coincidence, to congruence, to harmony, to synergy, the two films have to stand the new ground that they cut.
- However, there are both conflicts and congruences of interest between the sexes when cannibalism occurs after the male has inseminated the female.
- The instructional mode of two teachers was congruent with their personal view of learning, while the third showed congruence only when teaching one subject area.
- Classical art has its own temptations and sins; as Maritain hints, it may obscure the originating sense of congruence or confluence, the 'pulsion' which stimulates formal composition, by over-insistence on an abstract rigour of structure. Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 4: God and the Artist
- Not surprisingly, there's a predominant use of deictics throughout the text, ‘now’ ‘here’ ‘I’, a device used here to confirm, the congruence of the writer with the time and place of writing.
- The variation uncovered in experimentally defined essential gene pools more or less substantiated this concern, although the different experimental methods certainly contributed to the incongruence.
- High interpersonal congruence should foster harmonious and productive interactions for at least two reasons.
- More momentously, geometric proofs are guided by our deep ability to see points, lines, shapes and their symmetries, similarities and congruences.