incoherences

Noun

incoherence (countable and uncountable, plural incoherences)

1. The quality of not making logical sense or of not being logically connected.
   • 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...1599, Thomas Bilson, The Effect of Certaine Sermons Touching the Full Redemption of Mankind by the Death and Bloud of Christ Jesus, London: Walter Burre, page 145

   Synonyms:

   unintelligibility

2. (obsolete) The quality of not holding together physically.
   • […] 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 […]1669, Robert Boyle, “The History of Fluidity and Firmness,” Section 16, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts, London: Henry Herringman, p. 182
3. (countable) Something incoherent; something that does not make logical sense or is not logically connected.
   • […] 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.1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 3, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC, book I, page 26
4. Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to others.