Crossword clues for inconsequence
inconsequence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inconsequence \In*con"se*quence\, n. [L. inconsequentia: cf. F.
incons['e]quence.]
The quality or state of being inconsequent; lack of just or
logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness.
--Bp.
Stillingfleet.
Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of
your own reasoning!
--Bp. Hurd.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Latin inconsequentia, from inconsequens (see inconsequent).
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being inconsequent.
WordNet
n. having no important effects or influence [ant: consequence]
Usage examples of "inconsequence".
It was all about the Channel tunnel and a landscape awash in Eurotrash, and French fashion victims, and acid rain, and lugubrious Belgians, and Iranian language students, and lager louts swilling Heineken, and football hooligans, and holes in the ozone layer, and Italian playboys, and South American drug lords, and Swiss banks, and AmEx Goldcards, and the greenhouse effect, and the Age of Inconsequence, and soon and so forth.
Then, quite slowly, ja-Erh’aoa’s hands loosened again, and he said, with apparent inconsequence, “How is your guest, Chauvelin?
She looked forward to his visits, to their serious conversations after the frivolity and inconsequences of the Cartwright daughters.
Their sound works not so much to ironize performatively upon those old gender binaries, as to fritter them away into inconsequence.