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incoherency|ɪnkəʊˈhɪərənsɪ|
[f. as prec.: see -ency.]
The quality of being incoherent; = incoherence 2, 3.
1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 186 There is an Incoherencie in their Words now, as there was before. 1751Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 51 The incoherency of situation is perhaps one of the most excusable faults in the collection. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 227 The pulse has been a hundred and forty..in a minute, with incoherency or delirium from the first night. 1843A. Bethune Sc. Fireside Stor. 71 To believe, that the whole of his illness, and the incoherency of his speech, had been feigned to elude suspicion.
b. with an and pl. An instance of this quality; something incoherent.
1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4417/3 Besides the many Absurdities and Incoherencies in the historical Part thereof. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. iii. iii. §1 ⁋20 This cannot give a sanction to the incoherencies of Madness. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh i. 7 The incoherencies of change and death. |