incoherence

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being incoherent.; The quality of not making logical sense or of not being logically connected. countable,uncountable
    — HE DESCENDED, signifieth a voluntarie motion, where as the bodie dead hath neither WILL nor MOTION. […] Though therefore this exposition cannot be charged with falsitie, for Christ was trulie buried; yet may it not bee endured by reason of […] the improprietie and incoherence of the worde, that a deade corps should descend […]
  2. The quality of being incoherent.; The quality of not holding together physically. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 1669, Robert Boyle, “The History of Fluidity and Firmness,” Section 16, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts, London: Henry Herringman, p. 182, […] if it [Salt-Petre] be beaten into an impalpable powder, this powder, when it is pour’d out, will emulate a Liquor, by reason that the smallness and incoherence of the parts do both make them easie to be put into motion […]
  3. Something incoherent; something that does not make logical sense or is not logically connected. countable
    — […] Incoherences in Matter and Suppositions, without Proofs put handsomly together in good Words and a plausible Stile, are apt to pass for strong Reason and good Sense, till they come to be look’d into with Attention.
  4. Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to others. countable,uncountable

词形变化

incoherences plural

词汇关系

反义词
coherence
相关词
incoherency

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin haereō
Latin cohaereō
Latin cohaerēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin cohaerentiader.
Middle French coherenceder.
English coherence
English incoherence
From in- + coherence, formed on model of Italian incoerenza.
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