incoherence

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INCOHE'RENCE INCOHE'RENCY, noun [in and coherence.] 1. Want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence; looseness or unconnected state of parts, as of a powder. 2. Want of connection; incongruity; inconsistency; want of agreement, or dependence of one part on another; as the incoherence of arguments, facts or principles. 3. Inconsistency; that which does not agree with other parts of the same thing.
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