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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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INCIVILITY n. 3 definitions
The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness. Shak. Tillotson.
INCOMBUSTIBILITY n.
The quality of being incombustible.
INCOMMENSURABILITY n.
The quality or state of being incommensurable. Reid.
INCOMMUNICABILITY n.
The quality or state of being incommunicable, or incapable of being imparted.
INCOMMUTABILITY n.
The quality or state of being incommutable.
INCOMPATIBILITY n.
The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.
INCOMPETIBILITY n.
See Incompatibility.
INCOMPREHENSIBILITY n.
The quality of being incomprehensible, or beyond the reach of human intellect; incomprehensibleness; inconceivability; inexplicability. The constant, universal sense of all antiquity unanimously confessing an incomprehensibility in many of the articles of the Christian faith. South.
INCOMPRESSIBILITY n.
The quality of being incompressible, or incapable of reduction in volume by pressure; -- formerly supposed to be a property of liquids. The incompressibility of water is not absolute. Rees.
INCONCEIVABILITY n.
The quality of being inconceivable; inconceivableness. The inconceivability of the Infinite. Mansel.
INCONDENSABILITY; INCONDENSIBILITY n.
The quality or state of being incondensable.
INCONSEQUENTIALITY n.
The state of being inconsequential.
INCONTESTABILITY n.
The quality or state of being incontestable.
INCONTROVERTIBILITY n.
The state or condition of being incontrovertible.
INCONVERTIBILITY n.
The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold.
INCORPORALITY n.
Incorporeality. [Obs.] Bailey.
INCORPOREALITY n.
The state or quality of being incorporeal or bodiless; immateriality; incorporealism. G. Eliot.
INCORRIGIBILITY n.
The state or quality of being incorrigible. The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind. Barrow.
INCORRUPTIBILITY n.
The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption. Holland.
INCREDIBILITY n. 2 definitions
The quality or state of being incredible; incredibleness. Dryden.
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