incommensurate

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ commensurate.

Adjective

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incommensurate (comparative more incommensurate, superlative most incommensurate)

  1. Out of proportion (in size, degree or extent) with something else.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 179:
      In the marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi we saw a commensurate relationship between the two, a marriage of Heaven and earth, but now in the fall of Inanna into hell, the relationship becomes incommensurate.

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