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incoherence

[in-koh-heer-uhns, -her-] / ˌɪn koʊˈhɪər əns, -ˈhɛr- /
NOUN
disjointedness
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In 1985 he said that by adopting originalism, “the court could avoid both the charge of incoherence and the charge of being either too conservative or too liberal.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Kate Wagner of McMansion Hell argued that this architectural incoherence stems, in fact, from the modern homebuyer’s saturation in Zillow and Redfin.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025

Maybe I underestimate voters’ appetite for long-winded incoherence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

Minutes later, the 77-year-old launched into a rant about Master Lock, again slipping into incoherence.

From Salon ● May 2, 2024

My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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