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Coherence vs Incoherency - What's the difference?

coherence | incoherency |

As nouns the difference between coherence and incoherency

is that coherence is coherence, consistence, consistency while incoherency is the quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.

coherence

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.
  • a logical arrangement of parts
    • ''His arguments lacked coherence .
  • (physics, of waves) the property of having the same wavelength and phase.
  • (linguistics) Semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.

    • Antonyms

    * incoherence

    Related terms

    * cohesion

    References

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    incoherency

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.
  • That which is incoherent.
  • * South
    • Crude incoherencies and nauseous tautologies.

    Synonyms

    *incoherence