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incoherence

noun
/ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪəɹəns/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *ən- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Latin cohaerēns Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin cohaerentiader. Middle French coherenceder. English coherence English incoherence From in- + coherence, formed on model of Italian incoerenza.

  1. derived from cohaerentia
  2. derived from coherence
  3. prefixed as incoherence — “in + coherence”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being incoherent.

    • Bulstrode went away now without anxiety as to what Raffles might say in his raving, which had taken on a muttering incoherence not likely to create any dangerous belief.

  2. Something incoherent

    Something incoherent; something that does not make logical sense or is not logically connected.

    • […] Incoherences in Matter and Suppositions, without Proofs put handsomly together in good Words and a plausible Stile, are apt to pass for strong Reason and good Sense, till they come to be look’d into with Attention.
    • This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah’s diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.

  3. Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to…

    Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to others.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for incoherence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA