单词 | incoherency |
释义 | incoherencyn. a. The quality of being incoherent; = incoherence n. 2, 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [noun] > lack of coherence raggedness1590 incoherence1611 incoherency1684 inchoateness1976 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 186 There is an Incoherencie in their Words now, as there was before. View more context for this quotation 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 51 The incoherency of situation is perhaps one of the most excusable faults in the collection. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 438 The pulse has been a hundred and forty..in a minute, with incoherency or delirium from the first night. 1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 71 To believe, that the whole of his illness, and the incoherency of his speech, had been feigned to elude suspicion. b. with an and plural. An instance of this quality; something incoherent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [noun] > lack of coherence > instance of incoherence1658 incoherency1708 1708 London Gaz. No. 4417/3 Besides the many Absurdities and Incoherencies in the historical Part thereof. 1837–9 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe iii. iii. §1 ⁋20 This cannot give a sanction to the incoherencies of Madness. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 7 The incoherencies of change and death. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1684 |
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