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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Incoherence.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Incoherence.

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  • noun The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.
  • noun That which is incoherent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
  • noun lack of cohesion or clarity or organization

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Examples

  • The incoherency is thinking that materialism (or something like it) can be the basis for a coherent worldview.

    Dawkins' deterministic idea 2006

  • Expect incoherency from the chick who’s flown over from Ireland.

    my brain… agrimony 2008

  • The Wild Duck, where, I think, less than ever before, is to be found a trace of that incoherency which is to be met with occasionally in all the earlier works of Ibsen, and which seems like the effect of a sudden caprice or change of the point of view.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • The Wild Duck, where, I think, less than ever before, is to be found a trace of that incoherency which is to be met with occasionally in all the earlier works of Ibsen, and which seems like the effect of a sudden caprice or change of the point of view.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • The result of a searching determination to deal with personal and not typical forms of temperament is seen in the firmness of the portraiture in _The Wild Duck_, where, I think, less than ever before, is to be found a trace of that incoherency which is to be met with occasionally in all the earlier works of Ibsen, and which seems like the effect of a sudden caprice or change of the point of view.

    Henrik Ibsen Edmund Gosse 1888

  • If California wants to correct its incoherency, and quickly, it first needs to conduct an analysis of all physical and personnel costs associated with schooling in order to meet state-prescribed standards.

    Rep. Mike Honda: California's Student Lawsuit Exposes Education Disparities in America's Classrooms 2010

  • The suggestion that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could affect Americans drives Dershowitz into incoherency.

    Schumer and Dershowitz vs. Obama 2010

  • I think our biggest problem at the moment is the incoherency of the Obama administration's policy towards Iran.

    Palin for President? 2010

  • If California wants to correct its incoherency, and quickly, it first needs to conduct an analysis of all physical and personnel costs associated with schooling in order to meet state-prescribed standards.

    Rep. Mike Honda: California's Student Lawsuit Exposes Education Disparities in America's Classrooms 2010

  • Cherry-picked facts, claims made out of context, and physical incoherency are hallmarks of their publications.

    Scientists who favor ideology over fact 2010

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