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inconsistencies

inconsistencies is the plural of inconsistency.

Meaning of inconsistency

Noun

inconsistency (countable and uncountable, plural inconsistencies)

  1. The state of being inconsistent.
    • It was a strange inconsistency, but never till then had I been so much struck with the worthless and frivolous life of society. Never till then did I feel the deep and eternal debt of gratitude that human nature owes to those who assert its higher influence; who feel their generous activity stirred...1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 4–5
  2. An incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true.

Questions about inconsistencies

What is inconsistencies the plural of?
Inconsistencies is the plural of inconsistency.

Words near inconsistencies in the dictionary

  1. inconsiderateness
  2. inconsideration
  3. inconsiderations
  4. inconsistence
  5. inconsistences
  6. inconsistencies
  7. inconsistency
  8. inconsistent
  9. inconsistently
  10. inconsistentness
  11. inconsisting

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