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Definition of Incoherency

1. Noun. Lack of cohesion or clarity or organization.

2. Noun. Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible.

Definition of Incoherency

1. Noun. The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incoherency

incognitas incognito incognito(p) incognitos incognitum incognizable incognizance incognizances incognizant incognoscenti

incognoscibility incognoscible incogs incoherence incoherences incoherency (current term) incoherent incoherentific incoherently incoherentness

incohesive incohærent incoincidence incoincident incolumity incomber incombered incombering incombers incombine

Literary usage of Incoherency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of the pathology of the human mind by Thomas Mayo (1838)
"In the second stage the moral incoherency continues ; but intellectual incoherency or delirium lias also taken place. In the third stage, recovery from the ..."

2. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1854)
"... of the incoherency of dreams (1st cause.; The explanation of this peculiarity resolves itself into two parts.—The FIRST ground or cause of it is, ..."

3. Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Three Departments of the Intellect by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1869)
"Explanation of the incoherency of dreams. (1st cause.) There is frequently much of wildness, inconsistency, and contradiction in our dreams. ..."

4. The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French by Guizot (François), William Hazlitt (1875)
"... always was so—Fallacy of the view which the apologists of this system trace of the feudal hierarchy—Its incoherency and weakness were especially great ..."

5. The Eternal City by Hall Caine (1902)
"David Rossi's face flushed to the roots of his hair, but he stepped forward, bowed deeply, led the way to the sitting- room, and, with a certain incoherency ..."

6. The Eternal City by Hall Caine (1902)
"David Rossi's face flushed to the roots of his hair, but he stepped forward, bowed deeply, led the way to the sitting- room, and, with a certain incoherency ..."

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