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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Incoherence \In`co*her"ence\, Incoherency \In`co*her"en*cy\, n. [Cf. F. incoh['e]rence.] 1. The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence. --Boyle. 2. Want of connection; incongruity; inconsistency; want 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. --Locke. 3. That which is incoherent. Crude incoherencies . . . and nauseous tautologies. --South. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: incoherency n 1: lack of cohesion or clarity or organization [syn: {incoherence}] [ant: {coherence}] 2: nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible [syn: {incoherence}, {unintelligibility}]
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