Crossword clues for incoherence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incoherence \In`co*her"ence\, Incoherency \In`co*her"en*cy\, n.
The quality or state of being incoherent; lack of coherence; lack of cohesion or adherence.
--Boyle.-
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.
--Locke. -
That which is incoherent.
Crude incoherencies . . . and nauseous tautologies.
--South.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality of being incoherent. 2 (context countable English) Something incoherent.
WordNet
n. lack of cohesion or clarity or organization [syn: incoherency] [ant: coherence]
nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible [syn: incoherency, unintelligibility]
Wikipedia
Incoherence is an album by Peter Hammill, released on his Fie! label in March 2004. Incoherence is a concept album about language, containing 14 tracks with soft transitions between them. The album was produced and played by Hammill himself, with contributions from Stuart Gordon on violin and David Jackson on flute and saxes. Incoherence is recognized by critics as ambitious and one of Hammill's major works.
Incoherence may refer to:
- Lack of Coherence (disambiguation)
- The Incoherence of the Incoherence (Arabic: تهافت التهافت Tahāfut al-Tahāfut) by Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (1126–1198)
- The Incoherence of the Philosophers (تهافت الفلاسفة Tahāfut al-Falāsifaʰ in Arabic)
- Incoherence (2006–2010) Professional Wrestling Tag Team of Hallowicked, Delirious and Frightmare
- Incoherence (Peter Hammill album)
Usage examples of "incoherence".
My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master.
Favoral was plunged in her meditations, and a thousand miles as she was from the actual situation, it was impossible that she should not notice the intense excitement under which her daughter labored, the alteration of her features, and the incoherence of her words.
The news from the day before was that the incoherence of the Sarda who had been collected from Balmer's office, and his evident memory loss of practically everything that had happened since the experiment, were causing consternation.
I knew I would sit there and endure until the catalogue of beltings and poundings had dissolved into incoherence, into tears, into hysteria, and then I would flow Into the cracks in the kid's soul like epoxy glue and make him seem whole for a while .
But it is less easy for an English, French, or Italian critic than a German to pardon the incongruities, incoherences, and silly buffooneries which mar the opera.
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.
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.
All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called Jolllly .
All these incoherences, young, notional, sickly, joyous, got along very well together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable person whom his comrades, prodigal of consonants, called Jolllly.