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Incoherency

Definitions: Incoherency

Incoherency

Noun

1. 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 "incoherency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)



Synonyms: Incoherency

Synonyms: incoherence (n), unintelligibility (n). (additional references)
Antonym: coherence (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Incoherency

Specialty definitions using "incoherency": Incoherent. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Incoherency

"Incoherency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incoherency" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Incoherency

Language Translations for "incoherency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Zusammenhanglosigkeit (disjointedness, incoherence), Unvereinbarkeit (clash, incompatibility, incongruousness, inconsistency, infringement, irreconcilableness, violation). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zavarosság (feculence, fuzziness, incoherence, obscureness, turbidity, turbidness), nem figyelemre méltó (unimpressive), összefüggéstelenség (discursiveness, disjointedness, incoherence). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

incoherencyay

   

Romanian

  

incoerenţã (huddle, incoherence), exprimare (articulation, conveyance, expression, incoherence, language, manifestation, phrase, statement, utterance). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

brist på sammanhang (discontinuity, incoherence, inconsequence). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bağdaşmazlık (disharmony). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự không mạch lạc (incoherence, incoherentness, incohesion), lời nói không mạch lạc (incoherence, incohesion), b i nói không mạch lạc (incoherence, incohesion). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Incoherency

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-h-i-n-n-o-r-y"

-2 letters: coherency.

-3 letters: cicerone, coinhere, corniche, croceine, enchoric.

-4 letters: cheerio, chicory, chinone, choicer, choreic, chorine, chronic, cicoree, concern, conchie, cornice, crocein, crocine, cryonic, eccrine, hennery, heroine, hyenine, recency.

-5 letters: cheero, cheery, chicer, choice, choric, cicero, cochin, coerce, coheir, cohere, coiner, conchy, conine, conner, creche, echoer, echoey, echoic, encore, enrich, herein, hereon, heroic, heroin, hyenic, incony, inhere, ochery, orcein, recoin, reecho, reechy, richen.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-h-i-n-n-o-r-y"
 

+4 letters: ethnocentricity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Incoherency


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 63 6F 68 65 72 65 6E 63 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.    -.-.    ---    ....    .    .-.    .    -.    -.-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100011 01101111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#99 &#111 &#104 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0063 006F 0068 0065 0072 0065 006E 0063 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4380698174718471806991

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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