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inconsistency

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in·con·sis·ten·cy  (nkn-sstn-s)
n. pl. in·con·sis·ten·cies
1. The state or quality of being inconsistent.
2. Something inconsistent: many inconsistencies in your proposal.
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Noun1.inconsistency - the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
contradictoriness - the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist
2.inconsistency - the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts
nonuniformity - the quality of being diverse and interesting
consistence, consistency - a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts

inconsistency
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Spanish inconsistency [ɪnkənˈsɪstənsɪ] ninconsecuencia; [of actions etc] → falta de lógica; [of work] → carácter m desigual; inconsistencia; [of statement etc] → contradicción f
French inconsistency [ɪnkənˈsɪstənsɪ] n [of actions etc] → inconséquence f [of work]; irrégularité f [of statement etc]; incohérence f
German inconsistency [ɪnkənˈsɪstənsɪ] n (see adj) → Widersprüchlichkeit f; Inkonsequenz f; Unbeständigkeit f
Italian inconsistency [ɪnkənˈsɪstənsɪ] n [of actions etc] → incongruenza; [of work] → irregolarità; [of statement etc] → contraddizione f

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As an example of motiveless degradation of character, we have Menelaus in the Orestes: of character indecorous and inappropriate, the lament of Odysseus in the Scylla, and the speech of Melanippe: of inconsistency, the Iphigenia at Aulis,--for Iphigenia the suppliant in no way resembles her later self.
With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul.
Yet such is human inconsistency that one of the interests of the new place to her was the accidental virtues of its lying near her forefathers' country (for they were not Blakemore men, though her mother was Blakemore to the bone).
 
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