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Definition of Incoherence
1. Noun. Lack of cohesion or clarity or organization.
Generic synonyms: Disconnectedness, Disconnection, Disjunction, Disjuncture
Specialized synonyms: Disjointedness
Antonyms: Coherence
Derivative terms: Incoherent, Incoherent
2. Noun. Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible.
Generic synonyms: Bunk, Hokum, Meaninglessness, Nonsense, Nonsensicality
Specialized synonyms: Word Salad
Derivative terms: Incoherent, Unintelligible
Definition of Incoherence
1. n. The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence.
Definition of Incoherence
1. Noun. The quality of being incoherent. ¹
2. Noun. Something incoherent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incoherence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incoherence
Literary usage of Incoherence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"Their incoherence.—We connect in them, without a thought of incongruity, ...
For this incoherence, no other reason can be assigned than that the mind is ..."
2. A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind by James Cowles Prichard (1835)
"tinued conversation: all their discourse is marked by diffuseness and incoherence.* The
second degree takes place in every instance in which the disease ..."
3. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"incoherence.—incoherence is a dissociation of serially related ideas. ... When the
incoherence is marked in the sensory perceptions, we speak of lack of ..."
4. Composition and Rhetoric for Schools by Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon (1905)
"incoherence from Misuse of Connectives.—The misuse of connectives wiii bring about
... •Two "buts" used successively are likely to cause incoherence; eg, ..."
5. Études sur la Queste del saint graal attribuée à Gautier Map by Albert Pauphilet, Colonel Bell Burr, Ernst Ziegler, Douglas Symmers (1921)
"The natural expression of volition depends upon attention and free association
of concepts. 1. Inattentiveness, incoherence, Flight of Ideas, ..."
6. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... which my best and happiest efforts must have left far unworthy of their theme,
have, I am myself sensible, an appearance of negligence and incoherence, ..."
7. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1875)
"The incoherence of Mania.—It frequently happens that iii spite of incoherence of
the most marked character, the memory seems to be under the influence of ..."
8. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity: With References to the Scotch and by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1880)
"The incoherence of Mania.—It frequently happens that in spite of incoherence of
the most marked character, the memory seems to be under the influence of the ..."
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