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Incoherency   Listen
noun
Incoherency, Incoherence  n.  
1.
The quality or state of being incoherent; lack of coherence; lack of cohesion or adherence.
2.
Lack of connection; incongruity; inconsistency; lack of agreement or dependence of one part on another; as, the incoherence of arguments, facts, etc. "Incoherences in matter, and suppositions without proofs, put handsomely together, are apt to pass for strong reason."
3.
That which is incoherent. "Crude incoherencies... and nauseous tautologies."





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"Incoherency" Quotes from Famous Books



... time forth they were brothers in everything but personal appearance. Then he told his secret over again, with the addition of being pathetic on the subject of Miss Wackles, who, he gave Mr Quilp to understand, was the occasion of any slight incoherency he might observe in his speech at that moment, which was attributable solely to the strength of his affection and not to rosy wine or other fermented liquor. And then they went ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens
... place where his wife and children lived. A surgeon was sent for: he bled her, she gave signs of returning life, and before the dawn gave birth to a female infant. After this event she lay for some hours in a kind of stupor; and if at any time she spoke, it was with a quickness and incoherence that plainly evinced the total deprivation ...
— Charlotte Temple • Susanna Rowson
... man was not aware of the incoherence of his words, while Milady was reading with her lynx's eyes the very ...
— The Three Musketeers • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... exclaimed with weak incoherence, and a few minutes later he was bending over the records with Corrigan—the latter making sundry copies on a pad of paper, which he placed in a pocket ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
... incoherence and at last into silence. Agatha, holding his hands in hers, watched him as he sank away from her into some realm whither she could not follow. Either his hour of sanity and calmness had passed, and fever had taken hold upon his system; or fatigue, mental and physical, had overpowered ...
— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger


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