incoherency
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Noun (2)
- lack of cohesion or clarity or organizationSynonyms: incoherenceType of disjunction, disjunctureKinds disjointedness
- nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligibleSynonyms: incoherenceunintelligibilityType of nonsense, bunkKinds word salad
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
In′co·her′ence, In′co·her′en·cy noun
Origin: Cf. F. incohérence.
1. The quality or state of being incoherent; lack of coherence; lack of cohesion or adherence. Robert Boyle
2. Lack of connection; incongruity; inconsistency; lack of agreement or dependence of one part on another; as, the incoherence of arguments, facts, etc.
Incoherences in matter, and suppositions without proofs, put handsomely together, are apt to pass for strong reason.— John Locke
3. That which is incoherent.
Crude incoherencies... and nauseous tautologies.— Robert South
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54