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Incongruence vs Incoherence - What's the difference?

incongruence | incoherence |

As nouns the difference between incongruence and incoherence

is that incongruence is a want of congruence; incongruity while incoherence is the quality of being incoherent.

incongruence

English

Noun

(wikipedia incongruence) (en noun)
  • a want of congruence; incongruity.
  • out of place, absurd

    • 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