Incoherence

//ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪəɹəns// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being incoherent.; The quality of not making logical sense or of not being logically connected. countable, uncountable

    "HE DESCENDED, signifieth a voluntarie motion, where as the bodie dead hath neither WILL nor MOTION. […] Though therefore this exposition cannot be charged with falsitie, for Christ was trulie buried; yet may it not bee endured by reason of […] the improprietie and incoherence of the worde, that a deade corps should descend […]"

  2. 2
    nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible wordnet
  3. 3
    The quality of being incoherent.; The quality of not holding together physically. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "1669, Robert Boyle, “The History of Fluidity and Firmness,” Section 16, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts, London: Henry Herringman, p. 182, […] if it [Salt-Petre] be beaten into an impalpable powder, this powder, when it is pour’d out, will emulate a Liquor, by reason that the smallness and incoherence of the parts do both make them easie to be put into motion […]"

  4. 4
    lack of cohesion or clarity or organization wordnet
  5. 5
    Something incoherent; something that does not make logical sense or is not logically connected. countable

    "[…] 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."

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  1. 6
    Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to others. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From in- + coherence, formed on model of Italian incoerenza.

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