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I am writing an essay and I wanted to say that the things I like about a large university and the things I like about a small university can't exist together. For example the small supportive community comes at the expense of meeting new people every day, etc. a word like irreconcilable maybe ? The sentence says "... the best features of each university seemed ............. (can't coexist together)"
Thank you!
Consider incompatible
(Of two things) so opposed in character as to be incapable of existing together: cleverness and femininity were seen as incompatible
Oxford Dictionaries Online
Consider antinomic.
Definition: contradiction or opposition between one statement, principle, rule, etc., and another;
Example: The choice of that solution was driven by the concern to reach a compromise between requirements that sometimes were antinomic.
