Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or quality of being inconsistent.
- n. Something inconsistent: many inconsistencies in your proposal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being inconsistent; want of consistency or agreement between ideas or actions; contradictory relation of parts or particulars; intrinsic opposition in fact or in principle; incongruity; contrariety; discrepancy.
- n. A want of consistency in feeling, idea, or act; lack of agreement or uniformity in manifestation; incongruity.
- n. Synonyms Incoherency, irreconcilability, discrepancy, contradictoriness. See incompatible.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being inconsistent
- n. logic an incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility.
- n. Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument, or narration; that which is inconsistent.
- n. Lack of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
- n. the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts
Examples
“I believe one of the traditional liberal defenses of the inconsistency is an argument about strong/weak group relations.”
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“Some French commentators criticized the president for what they called his inconsistency over China and human rights.”
The Wall Street Journal: China Slams Sarkozy for Ties to Dalai Lama
“Such inconsistency is interesting, though, and almost inevitable when one sees fit to defend the English language from “plagues”, “attacks”, and presumably imminent doom.”
“This crazy vertebrae inconsistency is because the Two - and Three-toed sloths do not have a shared ancestor until you go back 40 MILLION YEARS.”
“The only inconsistency is the glaring, gaping one between his actions and his campaign rhetoric.”
So much for those ‘Free Tibet’ bumper stickers. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“But his inconsistency is troublesome and he left Tuesday's game and is day-to-day with a lower-body injury.”
“The inconsistency is between one of their positions and YOUR idea of what their other position should be.”
“The inconsistency is minor and arguably unimportant in a novel this lighthearted, but it's still bothersome.”
“' The inconsistency is the biggest disappointment. '”
“This inconsistency is true for other photos of labels on the website as well.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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GRE Readings
conclusive, derivative, conviction, affected, ample, defiance, bid, conception, demean, converse, compliance, base and 133 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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Idk, I like these words.
ethereality, apathy, consideration, soul, safety, lone wolf, darkness, pressure, ocean, few, collapse, believe and 155 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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favorite words
diffuse, ameliorate, needlessly, murky, lethargic, opaque, chouette, ambiguous, finesse, verisimilitude, gingerly, delicate and 42 more...
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Things I detest
lies, liars, idiocy, ignorance, superficiality, promiscuity, balloons, yellow, pink, socializing, norms, common sense and 40 more...
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Z-kai
subject to, adopt, attentive, coverage, expectation, lower, demanding, count, project, capability, projection, conviction and 45 more...
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