扞かん格かく

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

mutual incompatibility; mutual rejection

Formal, literary term for two things or people that are fundamentally incompatible and reject each other. Rare in everyday speech; more common in academic or philosophical writing.

• 両りょう者しゃの意い見けんは扞かん格かくして、合ごう意いに至いたらなかった。

  Their opinions were mutually incompatible and they could not reach an agreement.

• この二ふたつの理り論ろんは根こん本ぽん的てきに扞かん格かくする。

  These two theories are fundamentally incompatible with each other.