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/ɪnkoʊhˈɪrəns/ Listen

noun

Incoherency, Incoherence n.

The quality or state of being incoherent; lack of coherence; lack of cohesion or adherence.

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."

That which is incoherent. "Crude incoherencies... and nauseous tautologies."

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Etymology of 'Incoherence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incoherence" Quotes from Famous Books

... heart was buried with her, and placed upon her bosom! a thing that looks like the fantastic incoherence of a dream. It is well we did not know of her presence when at school; or after reading one of Shakspeare's tragedies, we should have run twice as fast round the cloisters at night time, as we used. Camden, 'the nourrice of antiquitie,' received ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 14, Issue 393, October 10, 1829 • Various

... Varden faintly, and with symptoms of approaching incoherence, 'is attached to me, and that is sufficient to draw down hatred upon her in this house. She is a comfort to me, whatever she may be ...

— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens

... of our best English blood. But now, confining our attention to M. Michelet, we in England—who know him best by his worst book, the book against priests, etc.—know him disadvantageously. That book is a rhapsody of incoherence. But his "History of France" is quite another thing. A man, in whatsoever craft he sails, cannot stretch away out of sight when he is linked to the windings of the shore by towing-ropes of History. Facts, and the consequences of facts, draw the writer back to the falconer's lure from the giddiest ...

— The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc • Thomas de Quincey

... much incoherence and with everybody giving orders and each acting independently, they bore him tenderly into the shade of a rock and worked over him feverishly, their faces paler than his. When he opened his eyes ...

— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower

... which I would not, dared not believe, had any meaning or method in their madness—but which entered into my own brain, and preyed there like the devouring of a fire. There was a truth in those ravings—a reason in that incoherence—and my cup ...

— Pelham, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence—an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy—an excessive nervous agitation. For something of this nature I had ...

— The Haunters & The Haunted - Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural • Various