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Incoherence vs Absurdity - What's the difference?

incoherence | absurdity |

As nouns the difference between incoherence and absurdity

is that incoherence is incoherence while absurdity is (obsolete|rare) dissonance .

incoherence

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being incoherent.
    • (Boyle)
  • (countable) Something incoherent.
  • * John Locke
    • Incoherences in matter, and suppositions without proofs, put handsomely together, are apt to pass for strong reason.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • 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.

    Antonyms

    * coherence

    absurdity

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete, rare) Dissonance.
  • (countable) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
  • * His travels were full of absurdities . - Johnson
  • (uncountable) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
  • * The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number. -
  • *
    • Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."

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