ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Incoherency

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Incoherency is a noun meaning (uncountable) The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.

Meaning

(uncountable) The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.

More Meanings

  1. (countable) A thing which is incoherent.

Example Sentences

Incoherency had overtaken his speech, but he was unaware of it.
Pardon, madam, the haste and incoherency of scrawls penned at so trying a moment.
‘It can make no change. You do not understand my position,’ returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner.
[…] 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.

Word Forms

Synonyms for incoherency

Depending on context, synonyms include incoherence, unintelligibility.

Antonyms for incoherency

Common opposites include cohesion, coherence, cohesiveness, coherency.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include incoherence, unintelligibility, incompatibility, inconsistentness, decoherency, incoincidence.

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