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INCOHERENCY

Dictionary entry overview: What does incoherency mean?

• INCOHERENCY (noun)
The noun INCOHERENCY has 2 senses:

1. lack of cohesion or clarity or organization
2. nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible

Familiarity information: INCOHERENCY used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• INCOHERENCY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Lack of cohesion or clarity or organization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

incoherence; incoherency

Hypernyms ("incoherency" is a kind of...):

disconnectedness; disconnection; disjunction; disjuncture (state of being disconnected)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incoherency"):

disjointedness (lacking order or coherence)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

unintelligibility; incoherence; incoherency

Hypernyms ("incoherency" 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 "incoherency"):

word salad (jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia)

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