incoherency
nounEtymology
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 cohaerentia English coherency English incoherency From in- + coherency or incoherent + -cy.
Definitions
The quality of being incoherent
The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.
- Pardon, madam, the haste and incoherency of scrawls penned at so trying a moment.
- ‘It can make no change. You do not understand my position,’ returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner.
A thing which is incoherent.
- But that vvhich vvould beſt of all juſtifie me, and the ſeeming incoherencies of ſome parts of my Diſcourse, vvould be the noble Authors Piece it ſelf, becauſe of the Antitheſis, and the forms of his Applications.
- For besides the unavoidable incoherencies, which must be reconciled and adjusted; one may safely affirm, that all popular theology, especially the scholastic, has a kind of appetite for absurdity and contradiction.
- […] he took into his large moist palm the dry little hand of his friend, while they both broke out into the incoherencies of people meeting after a long time.
The neighborhood
- synonymincoherence
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for incoherency. 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