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Incongruent vs Incoherence - What's the difference?

incongruent | incoherence |

As an adjective incongruent

is out of place, incompatible, inharmonious, not congruent.

As a noun incoherence is

the quality of being incoherent.

incongruent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • out of place, incompatible, inharmonious, not congruent
    • The yellow blazer was incongruent for the funeral.
    Her knowledge of world politics was incongruent in someone so young.
  • (mathematics) of or relating to two numbers that have different remainders when divided by a third number

    • Synonyms

    * incongruous, absurd, inappropriate

    See also

    * anachronistic ----

    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