Incoherency
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence. uncountable, usually
"[…] Haste and Sickness made me rather venture on your good Nature, for the Pardon of a venial Fault, than put myself to the trouble of altering the Order of these Papers, and substituting new Transitions and Connections, in the room of those, with which I formerly made up the Chasms and Incoherency of the Tract, you now receive."
- 2 nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible wordnet
- 3 A thing which is incoherent. countable, usually
"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."
- 4 lack of cohesion or clarity or organization wordnet
Example
More examples"[…] Haste and Sickness made me rather venture on your good Nature, for the Pardon of a venial Fault, than put myself to the trouble of altering the Order of these Papers, and substituting new Transitions and Connections, in the room of those, with which I formerly made up the Chasms and Incoherency of the Tract, you now receive."
Etymology
From in- + coherency or incoherent + -cy.
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