INCOHERENCY

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 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

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)

Derivation:

incoherent (without logical or meaningful connection)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

incoherence; incoherency; unintelligibility

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)

 Context examples 

“It can make no change. You do not understand my position,” returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I would still be merrily disposed at times; and as my pleasures were (to say the least) undignified, and I was not only well known and highly considered, but growing towards the elderly man, this incoherency of my life was daily growing more unwelcome.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)