incoherency
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7.5
- noun
- /ˌɪnkoʊˈhɪrənsi/
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incoherencia
- The incoherency in her argument confused everyone in the debate.
If you think that it's OK for a story to leave some things murky or to have some internal incoherencies because that's the way reality is.
- If you think that it's OK for a story to leave some things murky or to have some internal incoherencies because that's the way reality is.
Examples
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His speech was filled with incoherency, making it difficult for the audience to follow his main point.
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Helen expertly mediated John's conversations, waiting, as he untangled his incoherencies, with such patient expectancy that his listeners relaxed, not noticing the gaps.
Fiction book (1996) -
The creation of African nation-states left a distinctive incoherency in African countries.
Academic text (2008) -
It is as if the wider culture sucked the words out of us and left us to sputter incoherencies.
Blog text (12) -
The irony and incoherency of honoring and valuing inanimate objects more than citizens is not lost on France's immigrant and minority populations.
Academic text (2006) -
The professor pointed out the incoherency between the research findings and the conclusions drawn in the paper.
Synonyms
578
2.5
Words or ideas that do not make sense
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5.5
Long confused speech or writing that is hard to follow
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6.1
Lack of clear or exact meaning that makes things hard to understand
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7.3
Speech or writing that is unclear and hard to follow
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9.9
Confusing speech or writing that makes no sense
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9.1
Not able to say thoughts or feelings clearly when speaking
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9.9
A state where something is very hard to understand
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7.7
Lack of clear connection or order that makes something hard to follow
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8.7
Not being able to speak or write clearly
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9.9
Something that is very hard to understand
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9.9
A difficulty understanding handwriting, signs, or codes
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6.3
A state when ideas, plans, or memories are not clear
Lack of focus in speech or writing that makes ideas hard to follow
Speech that is hard to follow because the ideas do not connect
A talk that jumps between topics and does not follow a clear idea
Not being able to speak clearly so other people understand you
Information or speech that is hard to understand and causes confusion
A situation when something is hard to understand
The state of being vague or not clear
A state of being unclear and hard to understand
A state of being unclear with no definite meaning or edges
A vague, unclear way of expressing ideas
Antonyms
How Coherent
Surface Forms
Morphology
incoherency = incoherent (transparent) = in + coherent + cy
This is a standard noun formation from the adjective 'incoherent' meaning the state or quality of being incoherent.
Etymology
The word incoherency has the part in- meaning 'not' and the part cohere meaning 'to stick together', the same root you see in coherent. So incoherency is when ideas do not 'stick together', which is why it means being unclear or hard to follow.