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incoherence|ɪnkəʊˈhɪərəns|
[f. in-3 + coherence; cf. It. incoherenza (Florio, 1611), F. incohérence (18th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
The fact, condition, or quality of being incoherent.
1. lit. Want of cohesion.
1672Boyle Hist. Fluidity §16 Wks. 1772 I. 388 The smallness and incoherence of the parts do..make them easy to be put into motion. 1849Murchison Siluria vii. 126 The..shale..from its incoherence has been denuded for the most part.
2. Want of connexion; incompatibility, incongruity of subjects or matters.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. Introd. Pref. (1848) 11 The Incoherence of the Subjects..may make them look so little of kin to one another, as scarce to appear the Productions of the same Pen. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xi. §202 Impracticable Particulars, which troubled the Parliament the less, for their incoherence, and impossibility to be reduced into practice. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 494 The same author..says, ‘There is not a single view of human nature, which is not sufficient to extinguish the seeds of pride’. Observe the incoherence of the things here joined together; making a view extinguish, and extinguish seeds.
3. a. Want of coherence or connexion in thought or language; incongruity, inconsistency; want of logical or rational consistency or congruity.
1611Florio, Incoherenza, incoherence. 1643Milton Divorce ii. ii, The incoherence of such a doctrine cannot, must not be thus interpreted. 1664–94South Twelve Serm. II. 141 A Petition fraught with Nonsense and Incoherence, Confusion and Impertinence. 1778R. Lowth Transl. Isaiah Notes (ed. 12) 189 This obscure incoherence is given to it by the false rendering of a Hebrew particle. 1829I. Taylor Euthus. iv. (1867) 84 The intrinsic incoherence of heresy. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 98 Never was a greater amount of incoherence crammed into a short sentence.
b. with an and pl.: An instance of this; an incoherent statement or proceeding.
1658Bramhall Consecr. Bps. vii. 157 A Testimony which is clogged with so many improbabilities, and incongruities, and incoherences. 1710Addison Whig Exam. No. 4 (Seager) The system of his politicks, when disembroiled and cleared of all those incoherences and independent matters that are woven into this motley piece. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 285 This mythic theory is a mass of incoherences.
4. Physics. The property (of waves, or of phenomena involving them) of being incoherent (sense 5); lack of a definite or stable phase relationship between waves at different points (in space or in time).
1938Physica V. 785 In the usual treatment of interference and diffraction phenomena, there is nothing intermediate between coherence and incoherence... The first term is understood to mean complete dependence of phases, the second complete independence. 1958Physical Rev. CI. 7/2 This is a classical type of incoherence, such as would result if we had an assembly of classical oscillators with random initial phase. 1971K. R. Barnes Optical Transfer Function ii. 7 Spatial incoherence implies that the phases of the monochromatic components of the light from all points of the object are changing at random. |