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incoherent
English
Alternative forms
- incohærent (archaic)
Etymology
in- +? coherent
Adjective
incoherent (comparative more incoherent, superlative most incoherent)
- Not coherent.
- Not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent.
- When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation.
- After just a few drinks, he becomes incoherent.
- 1599, Ralph Brooke, A Discouerie of Certaine Errours Published in Print in the Much Commended Britannia, London, p. 35,[1]
- By which thus still ouermuch busying your selfe in matters passing your skill, it maketh you so forgetfull, that oftentimes you are faine to vtter matters incoherent, and much contradictorie.
- 1765, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses, London: A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Book 4, Section 4, p. 103, note z,[2]
- […] this historian of men and manners goes on in the same rambling incoherent manner […]
- 1881, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1, Chapter 15,[3]
- […] the big dark dining table twinkled here and there in the small candle-light; the pictures on the wall, all of them very brown, looked vague and incoherent.
- 1980, Barry Unsworth, Pascali’s Island, Penguin, 1988, p. 154,
- It was as if he was in fear of being swamped, rendered incoherent, by the sheer marvelousness of what he was relating.
- 2002, Julian Barnes, Something to Declare, New York: Knopf, Chapter 1, p. 10,[4]
- The historian […] is a sort of novelist, but one who instead of inventing plot and character is obliged to discover them; who instead of setting characters in motion against one another with foreknowledge of their natures and destinies tries to guess at what often incoherent characters were up to amid a distraction of lies and suppressions.
- (obsolete) Not holding together physically; loose; unconnected.
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, The Epistle to the Reader,[5]
- […] Some hasty and undigested Thoughts, on a Subject I had never before considered, which I set down against our next Meeting, gave the first entrance into this Discourse, which having been thus begun by Chance, was continued by Intreaty; written by incoherent parcels; and, after long intervals of neglect, resum'd again, as my Humour or Occasions permitted; and at last, in a retirement, where an Attendence on my Health gave me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it.
- 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, London: Richard Wilkin, Part 2, p. 110,[6]
- That Sand-Stone does not still consolidate: i.e. that Matter which was, a few Years ago, lax, incoherent, and in form of Earth, or of Sand, does not become daily more hard and consistent, and by little and little acquire a perfect Solidity, and so turn to Stone; as others have asserted.
- 1696, John Sergeant, The Method to Science, London, Book 3, pp. 228-229,[7]
- […] sooner, may all the Material World crumble into Incoherent Atoms, or relapse into the Abyss of Nothingness, than that any Conclusion, thus deduced, can be False […]
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, The Epistle to the Reader,[5]
- Not cohering socially, not united.
- 1888, Samuel Moore (translator), Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1906, p. 25,[8]
- At this stage the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition.
- 1961, James Baldwin, in James Baldwin: Collected Essays, New York: Library of America, 1998, p. 223,[9]
- […] because I am an American writer my subject and my material inevitably has to be a handful of incoherent people in an incoherent country.
- 1969, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness, New York: Ace, 2010, Chapter 8,[10]
- I was glad, now, to be out of Karhide, an incoherent land driven towards violence by a paranoid, pregnant king and an egomaniac Regent.
- 1888, Samuel Moore (translator), Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1906, p. 25,[8]
- Not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent.
Synonyms
- uncoherent
- unintelligible
- unrelated
- disjointed
- desultory
- jerky
- disconnected
- discontinuous
Antonyms
- coherent
Related terms
- incoherence
- incoherently
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
in- +? coherent
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /i?.ko.e??ent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /i?.ku.e??en/
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ent
Adjective
incoherent (masculine and feminine plural incoherents)
- incoherent
Derived terms
- incoherentment
Romanian
Adjective
incoherent m or n (feminine singular incoherent?, masculine plural incoheren?i, feminine and neuter plural incoherente)
- Alternative form of incoerent
Declension
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inherent
English
Alternative forms
- inhærent (archaic)
Etymology
From Latin inhaerentem, accusative singular of inhaer?ns, present active participle of inhaere? (“I am closely connected with; adhere to”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?h????nt/, /?n?h???nt/
Adjective
inherent (not comparable)
- Naturally as part or consequence of something.
- Synonyms: inbuilt, ingrained, intrinsic; see also Thesaurus:intrinsic
- Antonyms: extrinsic; see also Thesaurus:extrinsic
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with inherit.
Derived terms
- inherent vice
- inherently
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- inherent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- inherent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin inhaer?ns.
Adjective
inherent (masculine and feminine plural inherents)
- inherent
Derived terms
- inherentment
Further reading
- “inherent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “inherent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “inherent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “inherent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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