1. impossible to measure or compare because of fundamental differences
2. having no common measure or standard of comparison
Usage: mathematics

Examples

• The suffering of war victims is incommensurable with any material compensation.
• Her artistic vision was incommensurable with commercial demands.
• The two theories operate from incommensurable frameworks.
• In mathematics, pi and the square root of 2 are incommensurable quantities.
• The value of human life is incommensurable with monetary worth.
• Their cultural differences seemed incommensurable at first.