incoherence

noun

Definition of incoherencenext
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as in illogic

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as in disunity

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Recent Examples of incoherence The second season continued this confusion with a time-travel story often bordering on incoherence. — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026 But storefronts across the city have long been weird hodgepodges, rife with misspellings and aesthetic incoherence. — Clio Chang, Curbed, 22 June 2026 That mistranslation is most visible in its tonal incoherence. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026 Granted, there was a lot to criticize in my writing, which was suffering from all sorts of problems, from structural incoherence to insufficient character development to—yes—didactic heavy-handedness that broke the reader’s immersion. — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for incoherence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incoherence
  1. illogic
  2. disunity
  3. irrationality
  4. imbalance
  5. asymmetry
  6. disproportion
  7. disorganization
  8. dissonance
Noun
  • Art schools, like all schools, are wobbling under the illogic of the cost-benefit math.
    — Katy Siegel, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • Wilson operated outside of conventional narrative, trusting in the magic of unexpected illogic.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
Definition of illogic
Noun
  • Most believe there could be solutions through civil dialog, there are answers in the middle, and there is destructive disunity at the fringes.
    — Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2026
  • Whether that agreement will rapidly come to fruition on such a tight timeline is looking increasingly difficult – especially amid disunity among House and Senate Democrats.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
Definition of disunity
Noun
  • The irrationality ensures that no petal is directly above another.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026
  • In other words, emotion, empathy and irrationality could be seen as some of the most powerful counterweights to AI.
    — Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of irrationality
Noun
  • Whether such an imbalance can lead to anything sustainable for a team with visions beyond this uneven start is one thing.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2026
  • This is a far larger threat to China’s economy than a mere nuisance of sectoral imbalances.
    — Oliver Melton, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of imbalance
Noun
  • Trapping an antimatter particle for months One of the biggest unanswered questions in cosmology is why the early universe had a fundamental asymmetry between matter and antimatter.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026
  • An experienced hair transplant doctor has to fit the line to one specific face, weighing the angle of the hair, how density fades toward the back, and the small asymmetry almost every face has.
    — Kaitlyn Gomez, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of asymmetry
Noun
  • The disproportion between their small numbers and enormous consequences cannot be explained primarily by technology, mass media or even the war on terror.
    — Faisal Devji, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Manuel also jangles this apparent order with the striking visual trope of disorienting disproportions of scale—figures appearing unexpectedly small or large in the course’s expanses.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
Definition of disproportion
Noun
  • Even after completing your weekly household chores, clutter and disorganization can make things feel off.
    — Abby Monteil, The Spruce, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The report details how bureaucratic disorganization left the Fed vulnerable to overspending on a project to renovate and connect a pair of historical federal buildings in Washington.
    — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of disorganization
Noun
  • Composers devised elaborate systems for writing music that ventured deep into dissonance, away from the rules of tonality that had governed it for centuries.
    — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Thenew album finds Hot Chip confronting an increasingly bleak world with a sound that embraces distortion, decay and dissonance without abandoning the communal pleasures at the heart of the band’s music.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 19 Oct. 2026
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“Incoherence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incoherence. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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