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incoherence

[in-koh-heer-uhns, -her-] / ˌɪn koʊˈhɪər əns, -ˈhɛr- /
NOUN
disjointedness
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The first was oracular and inscrutable, a chairman who bragged he had learned to mumble with great incoherence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

The slippery incoherence is a feature, not a bug.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024

His speech ping-ponged between self-pity and incoherence, delivered in that odd sing-song quiet voice he uses when his aides tell him to act "serious."

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024

But Besson soon finds his way to tonal incoherence: a mishmash of somber character exploration and flagrant clichés.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 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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