Incapacity vs Incoherence - What's the difference?
incapacity | incoherence |
The lack of a capacity; an inability
* 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
(uncountable) The quality of being incoherent.
(countable) Something incoherent.
* John Locke
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
As nouns the difference between incapacity and incoherence
is that incapacity is the lack of a capacity; an inability while incoherence is the quality of being incoherent.incapacity
English
Noun
(incapacities)- So that it is not the insufficiency or incapacity of man's mind, but it is the remote standing or placing thereof that breedeth these mazes and incomprehensions;
incoherence
English
Noun
- (Boyle)
- Incoherences in matter, and suppositions without proofs, put handsomely together, are apt to pass for strong reason.
- This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah's diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.
