English Explanatory Dictionary

incoherence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quality of being incoherent.
  2. The quality of not making logical sense or of not being logically connected.
  3. The quality of not holding together physically.
  4. Something incoherent; something that does not make logical sense or is not logically connected.
  5. Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to others.

Pronunciation

/ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪəɹəns/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-incoherence.wav

Word forms

incoherence incoherences

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *ən- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Latin cohaerēns Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin cohaerentiader. Middle French coherenceder. English coherence English incoherence From in- + coherence, formed on model of Italian incoerenza.

Synonyms

unintelligibility

Antonyms

coherence

Related words

incoherency

Translations

Arabic: تَهَافُت Bulgarian: несвързаност Bulgarian: непоследователност Catalan: incoherència Finnish: sekavuus Finnish: epäjohdonmukaisuus Finnish: ristiriitaisuus Finnish: epäyhtenäisyys French: incohérence Galician: incoherencia German: Zusammenhanglosigkeit German: Inkohärenz Greek: ασυναρτησία Greek: ασυνέχεια Greek: ασυνάφεια Italian: incoerenza Spanish: incoherencia Lithuanian: inkoherencija Russian: инкогере́нтность Russian: инкогере́нция Russian: бессвя́зность
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