incoherency
English
Noun
incoherency (usually uncountable, plural incoherencies)
- The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.
- 1686, Robert Boyle, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Receiv’d Notion of Nature, London: John Taylor, Conclusion, p. 409,[1]
- […] Haste and Sickness made me rather venture on your good Nature, for the Pardon of a venial Fault, than put myself to the trouble of altering the Order of these Papers, and substituting new Transitions and Connections, in the room of those, with which I formerly made up the Chasms and Incoherency of the Tract, you now receive.
- 1785, Sophia Lee, The Recess, London: T. Cadell, Volume 3, Part 6, p. 260,[2]
- Pardon, madam, the haste and incoherency of scrawls penned at so trying a moment.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,[3]
- “It can make no change. You do not understand my position,” returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner.
- 1686, Robert Boyle, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Receiv’d Notion of Nature, London: John Taylor, Conclusion, p. 409,[1]
- That which is incoherent.
- 1667, John Evelyn, Publick Employment and an Active Life Prefer’d to Solitude, London: H. Herringman, “To the Reader,”[4]
- […] that which would best of all justifie me, and the seeming incoherencies of some parts of my Discourse, would be the noble Authors Piece it self […]
- 1757, David Hume, “The Natural History of Religion,” section 11, in Four Dissertations, London: A. Millar, p. 70,[5]
- For besides the unavoidable incoherencies, which must be reconciled and adjusted; one may safely affirm, that all popular theology, especially the scholastic, has a kind of appetite for absurdity and contradiction.
- 1887, William Dean Howells, April Hopes, New York: Harper, Chapter 1, p. 3,[6]
- […] he took into his large moist palm the dry little hand of his friend, while they both broke out into the incoherencies of people meeting after a long time.
- 1667, John Evelyn, Publick Employment and an Active Life Prefer’d to Solitude, London: H. Herringman, “To the Reader,”[4]