INCOHERENCE
Dictionary entry overview: What does incoherence mean?
• INCOHERENCE (noun)
The noun INCOHERENCE has 2 senses:
1. lack of cohesion or clarity or organization
2. nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
Familiarity information: INCOHERENCE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INCOHERENCE (noun)
Meaning:
Lack of cohesion or clarity or organization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
incoherence; incoherency
Hypernyms ("incoherence" is a kind of...):
disconnectedness; disconnection; disjunction; disjuncture (state of being disconnected)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incoherence"):
disjointedness (lacking order or coherence)
Antonym:
coherence (the state of cohering or sticking together)
Meaning:
Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
unintelligibility; incoherence; incoherency
Hypernyms ("incoherence" is a kind of...):
bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incoherence"):
word salad (jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia)
