[
UK
/ɪnkəʊhˈiəɹəns/
]
[ US /ˌɪnkoʊˈhɪɹəns/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnkoʊˈhɪɹəns/ ]
NOUN
- nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
- lack of cohesion or clarity or organization
How To Use incoherence In A Sentence
- His intellectual incoherence should not blind us to the populist possibilities he has stumbled upon.
- Beth's incoherence told Amy that something was terribly wrong.
- In the famous attack by al-Ghazali (d. 1111) in his Incoherence of the Philosophers, thinkers such as Avicenna were condemned for heresy for their failure to demonstrate the supposed Qur™anic account of physical resurrection and the reality of the afterlife. Mulla Sadra
- Although...the incoherence could be a side effect of my continued insomnia--I've been either lying awake until 4, or waking up at 2 for a few hours, almost every other night, even though I ran out of my exciting cough medicine last week. Ainmosni.
- The main (and best) criticism of sham-liberal politics is incoherence, which is what leads to it's collapse. That Broon meme
- Sometimes ‘nonlinear thinking’ is just newspeak for mental incoherence.
- There is room on the list for some wonderful, stoned, noodly incoherence from Helvetia ( "this one-way street doesn't allow bicycles/Oh no") and some moving, outsider, off-kilter folk from Kath Bloom ( "I knew that I would ride with you/If I could"). Readers recommend songs about bicycles: The Results
- The sheer scale and scope of the exhibition, combined with the reality that most visitors possessed only a passing knowledge of African political history would have seemed to destine this project for incoherence.
- -- 'For my own part,' he at once replied, 'I look upon Aeschylus as the first of poets, for his verses roll superbly; 'tis nothing but incoherence, bombast and turgidness.' The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
- It is Newman's ability to capture the riots' confusion, noise and incoherence that make the passage so stark yet believable.