inconsistency

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This inconsistency is a hallmark of the effort at finding shared ground.

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  1. noun The state or quality of being inconsistent.
  2. noun Something inconsistent: many inconsistencies in your proposal.

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  • Taking a look at how companies stack up, perhaps this inconsistency is the reason MOST organizations —  Marketing Profs Daily Fix
  • But it is part of that high inconsistency which is the fate of the Christian faith in human hands, that no man knows when the higher side of it will really be uppermost, if only for an instant; and that the worst ages of the Church will not do or say something, as if by accident, that is worthy of the best. —  A Short History of England
  • The reasons for occasional appearance of inconsistency will be afterwards explained, and the English and French forms given in each case are the terms which would be used in answering the rapid question, 'Of what order is this flower?' —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
  • Instead of being an inconsistency, the belief in the influence of the individual is a corollary of the original proposition I look upon a belief in the influence of individual character as a barbarous superstition,' said Vavasour Vavasour believes that there would be no heroes if there were a police,' said Coningsby; 'but I believe that civilisation is only fatal to minstrels, and that is the reason now we have no poets How do you account for the Polish failure in 1831?' —  Tancred Or, The New Crusade
  • Princess Heinrich seized on the inconsistency, and pointed it out to her daughter with an exasperating lucidity You are ready enough to remember that Augustin is king when you want anything from him," she would observe. —  The King's Mirror
 

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  1. As inconsistence: see -ency.
 

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/ɪnkənˈsɪstənsi/
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