Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being incommensurate.
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Examples
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And only in recognizing and respecting this incommensurateness can the convergence of interests among them be realized, and perhaps a more peaceful world order along with it.
Nathan Gardels: Eric X. Li's Globalization 2.0 Nathan Gardels 2011
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"Odds; a noun substantive, from the adjective odd." and he defines its meaning as "inequality," or incommensurateness.
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And only in recognizing and respecting this incommensurateness can the convergence of interests among them be realized, and perhaps a more peaceful world order along with it.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nathan Gardels 2011
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A struggle of jarring impulses; a mysterious division between the injunctions of the mind and the elections of the will; and the utter incommensurateness and the unsatisfying qualities of the things around us, that yet are the only objects which our senses discover or our appetites require us to pursue; these facts suggest that the riddle of fortune and circumstance is but a form of the riddle of man, and that the solution of both problems lies in the acknowledgement that the soul of man, as the subject of mind and will, possesses a principle of permanence and is destined to endure.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909
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Thee, "Hawley has succeeded in conquering the incommensurateness of
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