incoherence

== English == === Etymology === From in- +‎ coherence, formed on model of Italian incoerenza. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪəɹəns/ === Noun === incoherence (countable and uncountable, plural incoherences) (uncountable) The quality of being incoherent. The quality of not making logical sense or of not being logically connected. 1680, Henry Care, The History of the Damnable Popish Plot, London: B.R. et al., Chapter 23, Section 2, p. 327,[2] […] the said Lane is prevailed with […] to prefer an Indictment against Dr. Oates, for attempting to commit upon him the horrid and detestable sin of Sodomy; but the Grand Jury, by reason of the incoherence and slightness of his Evidence, did not think fit to finde it, but returned an Ignoramus. (obsolete) The quality of not holding together physically. 1669, Robert Boyle, “The History of Fluidity and Firmness,” Section 16, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts, London: Henry Herringman, p. 182,[6] […] if it [Salt-Petre] be beaten into an impalpable powder, this powder, when it is pour’d out, will emulate a Liquor, by reason that the smallness and incoherence of the parts do both make them easie to be put into motion […] (countable) Something incoherent; something that does not make logical sense or is not logically connected. (psychiatry) Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to others. ==== Synonyms ==== (quality of not making logical sense): unintelligibility ==== Antonyms ==== coherence ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== incoherency === References === === Anagrams === coinherence