incoherence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin haereō
Latin cohaereō
Latin cohaerēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin cohaerentiader.
Middle French coherenceder.
English coherence
English incoherence
From in- + coherence, formed on model of Italian incoerenza.
Base: coherence
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: incoherences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being incoherent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: HE DESCENDED, signifieth a voluntarie motion, where as the bodie dead hath neither WILL nor MOTION. […] Though therefore this exposition cannot be charged with falsitie, for Christ was trulie buried; yet may it not bee endured by reason of […] the improprietie and incoherence of the worde, that a deade corps should descend […]
1680, Henry Care, The History of the Damnable Popish Plot, London: B.R. et al., Chapter 23, Section 2, p. 327,
[…] the said Lane is prevailed with […] to prefer an Indictment against Dr. Oates, for attempting to commit upon him the horrid and detestable sin of Sodomy; but the Grand Jury, by reason of the incoherence and slightness of his Evidence, did not think fit to finde it, but returned an Ignoramus.
Bulstrode went away now without anxiety as to what Raffles might say in his raving, which had taken on a muttering incoherence not likely to create any dangerous belief.
Lily’s head was so heavy with the weight of a sleepless night that the chatter of her companions had the incoherence of a dream.
My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master.
gloss: The quality of being incoherent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 1669, Robert Boyle, “The History of Fluidity and Firmness,” Section 16, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts, London: Henry Herringman, p. 182,
[…] if it [Salt-Petre] be beaten into an impalpable powder, this powder, when it is pour’d out, will emulate a Liquor, by reason that the smallness and incoherence of the parts do both make them easie to be put into motion […]
gloss: Something incoherent; something that does not make logical sense or is not logically connected.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […] Incoherences in Matter and Suppositions, without Proofs put handsomly together in good Words and a plausible Stile, are apt to pass for strong Reason and good Sense, till they come to be look’d into with Attention.
This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah’s diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.
gloss: Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: coherence
Related words: incoherency
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تَهَافُت
roman: tahāfut
lang: Bulgarian
word: несвързаност
roman: nesvǎrzanost
lang: Bulgarian
word: непоследователност
roman: neposledovatelnost
lang: Catalan
word: incoherència
lang: Finnish
word: sekavuus
lang: Finnish
word: epäjohdonmukaisuus
lang: Finnish
word: ristiriitaisuus
lang: Finnish
word: epäyhtenäisyys
lang: French
word: incohérence
lang: Galician
word: incoherencia
lang: German
word: Zusammenhanglosigkeit
lang: German
word: Inkohärenz
lang: Greek
word: ασυναρτησία
roman: asynartisía
lang: Greek
word: ασυνέχεια
roman: asynécheia
lang: Greek
word: ασυνάφεια
roman: asynáfeia
lang: Hindi
word: असंगति
roman: asaṅgti
lang: Hindi
word: विसंगति
roman: visaṅgti
lang: Italian
word: incoerenza
lang: Spanish
word: incoherencia
lang: Lithuanian
word: inkoherencija
lang: Russian
word: инкогере́нтность
roman: inkogeréntnostʹ
lang: Russian
word: инкогере́нция
roman: inkogeréncija
lang: Russian
word: бессвя́зность
roman: bessvjáznostʹ