Noun: incommensurability
| Singular | incommensurability |
Sample Sentences
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[…] I therefore think, Sarah, that the incommensurability of the crime with the effect, completely warrants the supersaliency of this noctivagant delinquent. [1823, James Hogg, “Peril Second. Leasing. Circle II.”, in The Three Perils of Woman; or, Love, Leasing, and Jealousy. […], volume III, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 91:]
Nouns inflected like incommensurability
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English incommensurable
3. Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
4. Proto-Indo-European *-ts
5. Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
6. Latin -itāsder.
7. Old French -itebor.
8. Middle English -ite
9. English -ity
10. English incommensurability
11. From incommensurable + -ity.