Incoherence vs Inconsistency - What's the difference?
incoherence | inconsistency |
(uncountable) The quality of being incoherent.
(countable) Something incoherent.
* John Locke
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
The state of being inconsistent
(logic) an incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true
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
- (Boyle)
- Incoherences in matter, and suppositions without proofs, put handsomely together, are apt to pass for strong reason.
- 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.