incoherency
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of incoherency
First recorded in 1675–85; in- 3 + coherency ( def. )
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“His main dilemma was the incoherency in his writing, and lack of a recognizable argument,” Professor Ronell said in a January 2018 interview submitted to the Title IX office.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2018
In the incoherency of our citizenship, we don’t matter to here, and as Rodney King said, “We are stuck here for a while.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2014
Sneaky statistical manipulation often bubbles up into conceptual incoherency, as it did in Pielke’s article and now in Silver’s defense of it.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2014
At a workers' meeting he lapsed into incoherency.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I do have some trouble with incoherency when I’m around him,” I admitted.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
Anyhow, whatever it was that threw readers of the book into incoherencies has been carried over into the picture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
I think we're seeing people who don't know anything about CRT, don't know anything about academic freedom or free speech, and don't know anything about higher education writing these bills filled with contradictions and incoherencies.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2022
I could see no course to follow among these incoherencies but that of candor.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ann Packet knew an old woman of her workhouse days who had had "drefful headaches," and this was how she cured hers—and off went Ann Packet into more rambling incoherencies.
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William
No fusion had been effected between the skilful psychologist and the pious pedant, and the very jolts and incoherencies constituted the personality of the man.
From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
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