English Dictionary

incoherence

/ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪəɹəns/

noun

The quality of not making logical sense or of not being logically connected. / (obsolete) The quality of not holding together physically.

The incoherence of his argument made it difficult to understand his point.

意味（1）

The quality of not making logical sense or of not being logically connected.

HE DESCENDED, signifieth a voluntarie motion, where as the bodie dead hath neither WILL nor MOTION. […] Though therefore this exposition cannot be charged with falsitie, for Christ was trulie buried; yet may it not bee endured by reason of […] the improprietie and incoherence of the worde, that a deade corps should descend […]

意味（2）

(obsolete) The quality of not holding together physically.

[…] if it [Salt-Petre] be beaten into an impalpable powder, this powder, when it is pour’d out, will emulate a Liquor, by reason that the smallness and incoherence of the parts do both make them easie to be put into motion […]

意味（3）

(countable) Something incoherent; something that does not make logical sense or is not logically connected.

[…] Incoherences in Matter and Suppositions, without Proofs put handsomly together in good Words and a plausible Stile, are apt to pass for strong Reason and good Sense, till they come to be look’d into with Attention.

意味（4）

(psychiatry) Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to others.