incoherence
IPA: ɪnkoʊhˈɪrʌns
noun
- (uncountable) The quality of being incoherent.
- The quality of not making logical sense or of not being logically connected.
- (obsolete) The quality of not holding together physically.
- (countable) Something incoherent; something that does not make logical sense or is not logically connected.
- (psychiatry) Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to others.
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Examples of "incoherence" in Sentences
- After all, if you think incoherence is “right” I think that must mean that you too are incoherent.
- The only incoherence is being spewed from your keyboard, as AIG & Lehman were HUGE MORTGAGE COMPANIES ...
- The main (and best) criticism of sham-liberal politics is incoherence, which is what leads to it's collapse.
- For example, in psychiatric terms, a zombi might be called a catatonic schizophrenic; both conditions are characterized by incoherence and catalepsy with alternate moments of stupor and activity.
- Although...the incoherence could be a side effect of my continued insomnia--I've been either lying awake until 4, or waking up at 2 for a few hours, almost every other night, even though I ran out of my exciting cough medicine last week.
- There's a certain incoherence running through the release, though, which can't seem to decide whether they're trying to accuse Kerry of being a liar (because no foreign leaders have publicly endorsed him) or a dupe (because foreign leaders really do support him).
- As for the tea parties; the ideological incoherence is an outgrowth of the Republican Party’s ideological incoherence; the Republican Party’s inability to deliver on its mutually contradictory stated policy goals has discredited it, but not, apparently, the policy goals.
- Hurt's incoherence is not readily apparent in his television ads or stump speech, where he can control the message and where, in front of friendly audiences, his positions are not subject to critique and rebuttal, or he can otherwise simply refuse to acknowledge or answer questions.
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