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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INCOHE'RENCE
INCOHE'RENCY, n. [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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: lack of cohesion or clarity or organization [syn: incoherence, incoherency] [ant: coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness]
2: nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible [syn: incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1611 1. the quality or state of being incoherent 2. something that is incoherent

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Incoherence In`co*her"ence, Incoherency In`co*her"en*cy, n. [Cf. F. incoh['e]rence.] 1. The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence. --Boyle. 2. Want of connection; incongruity; inconsistency; want 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. --Locke. 3. That which is incoherent. Crude incoherencies . . . and nauseous tautologies. --South.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see incoherent

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n.; (also incoherency) 1. Looseness (of parts), want of cohesion. 2. Incongruity, inconsistency, inconsequence, want of connection, want of agreement.