incoherency

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Latin cohaerēns Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin cohaerentia English coherency English incoherency From in- + coherency or incoherent + -cy.

1. The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.

   “[…] Haste and Sickness made me rather venture on your good Nature, for the Pardon of a venial Fault, than put myself to the trouble of altering the Order of these Papers, and substituting new Transitions and Connections, in the room of those, with which I formerly made up the Chasms and Incoherency of the Tract, you now receive.”

   “Pardon, madam, the haste and incoherency of scrawls penned at so trying a moment.”

2. A thing which is incoherent.

   “But that vvhich vvould beſt of all juſtifie me, and the ſeeming incoherencies of ſome parts of my Diſcourse, vvould be the noble Authors Piece it ſelf, becauſe of the Antitheſis, and the forms of his Applications.”

   “For besides the unavoidable incoherencies, which must be reconciled and adjusted; one may safely affirm, that all popular theology, especially the scholastic, has a kind of appetite for absurdity and contradiction.”