Inconsistency

Definitions: Inconsistency

Inconsistency

Noun

1. The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time.

2. The quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts.

Date "inconsistency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Etymology: Inconsistency \In`con*sist"en*cy\, noun; plural Inconsistencies. [Compare to the French expression inconsistance.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Inconsistency

Synonyms: incompatibility (n), mutual exclusiveness (n), repugnance (n). (additional references)

Antonym: consistency (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Absurdity	Noun: absurdity, absurdness; Adjective: imbecility; alogy, nonsense, utter nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy, stultiloquence; nugacity.
Disagreement	Unfitness; Adjective: inaptitude, impropriety; inapplicability; Adjective: inconsistency, inconcinnity; irrelevancy; (irrelation).
Imbecility Folly	Folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry; giddiness; (inattention); eccentricity; extravagance; (absurdity); rashness.
Reasoning,	Sophism, solecism, paralogism; quibble, quirk, elenchus, elench, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet; inconsistency, antilogy; "a delusion, a mockery, and a snare"; claptrap, cant, mere words; "lame and impotent conclusion".
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Inconsistency

English words defined with "inconsistency": demoralisation, demoralization, Discomposition, Disconformity, Discordancy ♦ Inconsistence, Inconsistencies, Inconsistentness ♦ Unconformity. (references)

Specialty definitions using "inconsistency": FV ♦ intelligent key ♦ multiple perspective software development ♦ PUMP-PRESS OPERATOR. (references)

Etymologies containing "inconsistency": Discomposition. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Inconsistency in Paul?: A Critique of Heikki Raisanen (reference) Inconsistency in Science (Origins: Studies in the Sources of Scientific Creativity, 2) (reference) Paraconsistency: The Logical Way to Inconsistency (reference) Status inconsistency in modern societies : proceedings of a Conference on "New Differentiations of Status Structures? On the Viability of the Concept of Status Inconsistency in Contemporary Society" (reference) The conference sequence; patterned narration and narrative inconsistency in the Odyssey (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Joseph Addison	Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
	Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Marcus T. Cicero	No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Other people have had frequent contact with rodents and their droppings before becoming ill. This apparent inconsistency makes it very difficult to pin down the precise time when the virus was transmitted. (references)
Business		In cases of inconsistency, the most recent or globally comparable available is chosen. (references)
Civil Liberties	Netherlands	The prevailing decisions have held that the wearing of headscarves may be banned only on narrow grounds, such as a concern for safety or inconsistency with an official government uniform. (references)
Economic History	Laos	THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LAOS' INVESTMENT LAW IS SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERMINED BY THE INCONSISTENCY OF ITS APPLICATION. (references)
	Pakistan	Policy inconsistency, weak implementation and corruption have dampened investor interest and economic growth in Pakistan. (references)
Political Economy	ROMANIA	Investors complain of inconsistency in Romania's policy on tax incentives for foreign companies. (references)
Political Rights	Indonesia	The MPR was to decide its precise future role and transitional arrangements through further constitutional changes to be considered in 2002. The legislative branch has demonstrated its independence through the DPR's aggressive pursuit of its government oversight function, as well as the MPR's success in first forcing President Wahid to cede more authority over daily government management to Vice President Megawati because of perceived inefficiency and inconsistency in the Wahid Administration's implementation of policy. (references)
Trade	Venezuela	Complaints by importers of inconsistency in customs treatment in various ports of entry have led to an effort by the National Tax Authority (SENIAT) to build a common data base of information and otherwise coordinate and ensure uniform valuation principles by customs offices throughout the country. (references)
Women	Egypt	On July 9, the Ministry of Interior announced that the ruling would be implemented, but women's rights organizations reported inconsistency in implementation by police through year's end. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Inconsistency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inconsistency" is used about 223 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%	223	20,178

Expression using "inconsistency": stylistic inconsistency. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "inconsistency": time-inconsistency.
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Language		Translations for "inconsistency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		paqëndrueshmëri (instability, lability, volatility), mungesë konsekuence, mospërputhje (clash, discrepancy, gap, incongruity, variance). (various references)

Arabic		‏تنافر (antagonism, contention, disaccord, discord, disharmony, dissonance, incongruity, jar, repulsion), ‏تناقض (ambivalence, antinomy, be on the wane, conflict, contradiction, cross-purposes, discrepancy, opposite, opposition, repugnance), ‏تقلب (alteration, change, fickleness, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, flux, inconstancy, levity, oscillate, oscillation, swing, toss, tumble, turn, variation, versatility, vicissitude, welter), ‏تضارب (clash, collide, collision, conflict, contrariety, disagree, disagreement, discord, discrepancy, interfere, interference, jar, quarrel). (various references)

Bulgarian		колебливост (doubling, inconstancy, irresolution, vacillation, versatility), несъгласуваност (inco-ordination), непоследователност (antilogy, contradiction, incoherence, inconsequence), липса на единство (disunity, patchiness), противоречивост, променливост (changeability, inconstancy, inequality, variability, versatility). (various references)

Chinese		不一致 (Inconsistencies, inconsistent). (various references)

Czech		protikladnost, nevyrovnanost (unbalance), nedùslednost (inconsequence). (various references)

Danish		inkonsistens. (various references)

Dutch		inconsistentie. (various references)

Farsi		ناهماهنگی (Imbalance), ناسازگاری (Antipathy, Aversion, Conflict, Discord, Incoherence, Incompatibility, Incongruity, Inconvenience, Intransigeance, Repugnance, Variance), ناجوری (Discordance, Disparity, Incoherence, Inconvenience, Unlikelihood), نااستواری (Instability), تباین (Contrast, Divergence), بی ثباتی (Instability, Jitter, Variation). (various references)

Finnish		ristiriitaisuus (contradiction, incompatibility, incongruence). (various references)

French		incohérence (incoherence). (various references)

German		unvereinbarkeit (clash, incoherency, incompatibility, incongruousness, infringement, irreconcilableness, violation), Folgewidrigkeit (inconsequence). (various references)

Greek		ασυνέπεια (unconformity). (various references)

Hebrew		אי עקיבות. (various references)

Hungarian		következetlenség (incoherence, inconsequence). (various references)

Italian		inconsistenza. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		矛盾 (contradiction). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そ�" (a parent language, conflict, contradiction, discord, discrepancy, failure, frustration), ふじょうり (absurdity, irrationality), むじゅ�" (contradiction), はいち (arrangement, contradiction, disobedience, disposition). (various references)

Manx		neuhassooaght (instability). (various references)

Pig Latin		inconsistencyay

Portuguese		inconsistência (contradiction). (various references)

Russian		несогласованность (incoodination, incoordination), противоречивость. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		protivrečnost (discrepancy), nestalnost (fickleness, inconstancy, levity, versatility, volatility), nesaglasnost (disagreement, unconformity). (various references)

Spanish		incoherencia (garbage, incoherence, unwanted and meaningless information in memory or on tape). (various references)

Swedish		inkonsekvens (contradiction, illegitimacy, inconsequence). (various references)

Turkish		uyumsuzluk (clash, discord, discordance, disharmony, disparity, dissonance, divided counsel, inadaptability, incompatiblity, inconsonance, maladjustment, mismatch, unconformity), uyuşmama, tutarsızlık (abruptness, contradictoriness, desultoriness, discrepancy, incoherence, inconsequence, repugnance, variable), kararsızlık (changeability, dither, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fickleness, flightiness, fluctuation, haziness, hesitance, hesitancy, incertitude, indecision, indeterminate, infirmity, infirmity of purpose, instability, irresolution, looseness, oscillation, quandary, shilly shally, suspense, uncertainty, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability), bağdaşmama (incongruity, nonconformity), aykırılık (anomaly, contradiction, contradistinction, contrariety, cross-purposes, discrepancy, incongruity, irregularity, repugnance, solecism). (various references)

Ukranian		несумісність (antipathy, contrariety, incompatibility), непослідовність (anomaly, illegitimacy, inconsequence), мінливість (caprice, changeability, inequality, mobility, mutability, mutation, uncertainty, variability, vicissitude). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự trái nhau (inconsistence), sự mâu thuẫn (clash, conflict, contradiction, inconsistence, repugnance, repugnancy), sự không trước sau như một lời tuyên bố đấy mâu thuẫn h� nh động không trước sau như một (inconsistence). (various references)

Welsh		anghysondeb. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Inconsistency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inconsise, inconsistancy, inconssstency. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "inconsistency" (pronounced i'nkunsi"stunsē)
11	-k u n s i" s t u n s ē	consistency.
6	-s t u n s ē	constancy, inconstancy.
5	-t u n s ē	accountancy, competency, consultancy, expectancy, hesitancy, incompetency, latency, militancy, potency.
4	-u n s ē	absorbency, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, complacency, Conservancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expediency, fluency, frequency, immunodeficiency, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, leniency, malignancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy.
3	-n s ē	bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-i-n-n-n-o-s-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: consistency, inconscient.
	-3 letters: concinnity, insistency, intensions, noninsects.
	-4 letters: concisest, cytosines, innocency, innocents, intension, nicotines, noninsect, syntonies, tinniness.
	-5 letters: conceits, concents, conicity, coniines, connects, consents, cysteins, cystines, cytosine, innocent, inosites, nicotine, nicotins, noisiest, oscinine, sections, syenitic, synectic, syntonic, tensions, tininess.
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