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Incoherence vs Inconsistency - What's the difference?

incoherence | inconsistency |

As nouns the difference between incoherence and inconsistency

is that incoherence is the quality of being incoherent while inconsistency is the state of being inconsistent.

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

    inconsistency

    English

    Noun

    (inconsistencies)
  • The state of being inconsistent
  • (logic) an incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true

    • Synonyms

    * contrariety, * deviation, * difference * disagreement * disparity * disproportion * disproportionateness * dissimilarity * dissonance * divergence * incongruity * inconsonance * inequality * paradox * unlikeness * variance

    Antonyms

    * consistency