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Definitions: Incoherence |
IncoherenceNoun1. Lack of cohesion or clarity or organization. 2. Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incoherence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Synonyms: IncoherenceSynonyms: incoherency (n), unintelligibility (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: coherence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Noun: nonadhesion; immiscibility; incoherence; looseness; Adjective: laxity; relaxation; loosening; Verb: freedom; disjunction; rope of sand. |
Insanity | Insanity, lunacy; madness; Adjective: mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation, dementia, demency; phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain storm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Incoherence |
| English words defined with "incoherence": Incoherentific, Incoherentness ♦ undone, unstuck ♦ Wind shake. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "incoherence": Coronation ♦ Unix weenie. (references) |
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| "Incoherence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incoherence" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 55 | 45,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
incoherence | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "incoherence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkrifje (friability), mungesë lidhjeje (discrepancy, irrelevance), moskoherencë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نفكك, لا تماسك, تشوش (addle, become confused, confusion, fog, fogginess, mix up, morass, muddling, perplexity, perturbation, pother, promiscuity, ramp, ravel, tangle), عدم الترابط. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разхвърляност, несвързаност (discontinuity), непоследователност (antilogy, contradiction, inconsequence, inconsistency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nesouvislost (discontinuity), nesoudržnost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | inkohaerens, inkohærens. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | incoherentie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ناسازگاری (Antipathy, Aversion, Conflict, Discord, Incompatibility, Incongruity, Inconsistency, Inconvenience, Intransigeance, Repugnance, Variance), ناجوری (Discordance, Disparity, Inconsistency, Inconvenience, Unlikelihood), تناقض (Antithesis, Repugnance), عدم چسبندگی , عدم تطابق , عدم ربط. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | epäkoherenssi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | incohérence (inconsistency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zusammenhanglosigkeit (disjointedness, incoherency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασυναρτησία (bull, discursiveness, double talk, incoherent, incongruity), ασυμφωνία (descrepancy, disagreement, discord, discordance, discrepance, discrepancy, incompatability, incompatibility, non-conformance, unconformity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חוסר קשר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | összefüggéstelenség (discursiveness, disjointedness, incoherency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | incoerenza (inconsistency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | rouailley (confusion, delerium, deviousness, mix up, prowl, rambling, rave, wander), meeresoonaght (preposterousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | incoherenceay desconhecedor (ignorant, stranger, unacquainted, unaware, uninformed, unversed). (various references) incoerenţã (huddle, incoherency), exprimare (articulation, conveyance, expression, incoherency, language, manifestation, phrase, statement, utterance). (various references) несвязность. (various references) nepovezanost (discontinuity, irrelevance). (various references) incoherencia (garbage, inconsistency, unwanted and meaningless information in memory or on tape). (various references) brist på sammanhang (discontinuity, incoherency, inconsequence). (various references) ipe sapa gelmeme, tutarsızlık (abruptness, contradictoriness, desultoriness, discrepancy, inconsequence, inconsistency, repugnance, variable), anlamsızlık (absurdity, absurdness, barrenness, fatuity, frivolity, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, inexpressiveness, insignificance, insignificancy, nonsensicalness, nothingness, ridiculousness, unreason, vacuity). (various references) keзjelik (stupidity). (various references) незв'язність, недоладність (fussiness). (various references) sự không mạch lạc (incoherency, incoherentness, incohesion), lời nói không mạch lạc (incoherency, incohesion), b i nói không mạch lạc (incoherency, incohesion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "incoherence": incoherences. (additional references) | |
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"Incoherence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incohearence, incoherences. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "incoherence" (pronounced i'nkōhi"runs) |
| 8 | -k ō h i" r u n s | coherence. |
| 6 | -h i" r u n s | adherence. |
| 5 | -i" r u n s | appearance, clearance, disappearance, interference, noninterference, perseverance, reappearance. |
| 4 | -r u n s | abhorrence, assurance, circumference, Clarence, entrance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, hindrance, insurance, preponderance, reassurance, recalcitrance, reinsurance, remembrance, teleconference, videoconference. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, clairvoyance, coexistence, cognizance, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, intelligence, interdependence, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, relevance, reliance, reluctance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-h-i-n-n-o-r" | |
-2 letters: coherence, inherence. | |
-3 letters: cicerone, coinhere, corniche, croceine, enchoric. | |
-4 letters: cheerio, chinone, choicer, choreic, chorine, chronic, cicoree, concern, conchie, cornice, crocein, crocine, eccrine, heroine. | |
-5 letters: cheero, chicer, choice, choric, cicero, cochin, coerce, coheir, cohere, coiner, conine, conner, creche, echoer, echoic, encore, enrich, herein, hereon, heroic, heroin, inhere, orcein, recoin, reecho, richen. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-h-i-n-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: incoherences. | |
+5 letters: mechanoreception. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 63 6F 68 65 72 65 6E 63 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100011 01101111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n c o h e r e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0063 006F 0068 0065 0072 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380698174718471806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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