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Incongruity vs Incoherence - What's the difference?

incongruity | incoherence |

As nouns the difference between incongruity and incoherence

is that incongruity is the state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence while incoherence is incoherence.

incongruity

English

Noun

(incongruities)
  • The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence.
  • An instance or point of disagreement; a dissimilarity; a discrepancy; an inconsistency.
  • A thing that is incongruous.

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    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