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incoherence

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in·co·her·ence  (nk-hîrns)
n.
1. The condition or quality of being incoherent.
2. Something incoherent.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.incoherence - lack of cohesion or clarity or organization
disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction, disjuncture - state of being disconnected
disjointedness - lacking order or coherence
coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness - the state of cohering or sticking together
2.incoherence - nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligibleincoherence - nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, bunk - a message that seems to convey no meaning
word salad - jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia

incoherence
noun unintelligibility, inarticulateness, disconnectedness, disjointedness Her incoherence was enough to tell him that something was wrong.
Translations
incoherence [ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪərəns] N [of ideas, policies] → incoherencia f, falta f de coherencia
his attempts to explain degenerated into incoherenceen su intento por dar una explicación cayó en la más absoluta incoherencia
incoherence [ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪərəns] n
[person] → incohérence f
[policy, approach] → incohérence f
incoherence
n (of style, prose)Zusammenhanglosigkeit f, → mangelnder Zusammenhang; with each drink his incoherence grewseine Worte wurden mit jedem Glas wirrer or zusammenhangloser
incoherence [ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪərns] nincoerenza


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Whereupon Victor administered a rebuke in the form of a volley of abuse, which, owing to its rapidity and incoherence, was all but incomprehensible to Edna.
And here the incoherence coming on very strong, Mrs Varden wept, and laughed, and sobbed, and shivered, and hiccoughed, and choked; and said she knew it was very foolish but she couldn't help it; and that when she was dead and gone, perhaps they would be sorry for it--which really under the circumstances did not appear quite so probable as she seemed to think--with a great deal more to the same effect.
There is a striking incoherence in the objections which have appeared, and sometimes even from the same quarter, not much calculated to inspire a very favorable opinion of the sincerity or fair dealing of their authors.
 
 
 
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