Crossword clues for incoherency
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
1680s, from incoherent + -cy.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence. 2 That which is incoherent.
WordNet
n. lack of cohesion or clarity or organization [syn: incoherence] [ant: coherence]
nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible [syn: incoherence, unintelligibility]
Usage examples of "incoherency".
I sat down beside him, and pointed out the various incoherencies and contradictions of the work, and the doctrine it espoused: so long and so earnestly did I speak that at length Aubrey looked up, seemingly cheered and relieved.
She did hear Megenda mumbling incoherencies as she was propelled down the ladder.
But a Hold, with only the terrified incoherencies of a watch-wher for company was another matter.
The panic had caused many love-affairs to be forgotten, had broken off long intimacies, but Marguerite’s temperament was above such incoherencies from mere flight.
He said Nunez must have been specially created to learn and serve the wisdom they had acquired, and that for all his mental incoherency and stumbling behaviour he must have courage and do his best to learn, and at that all the people in the door-way murmured encouragingly.