incoherence
incoherence Lexical Profile
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• noun
The quality or state of being expressed in an unclear, confusing, or unintelligible way, especially in speech or writing.
"Exhaustion and high fever reduced the patient's speech to near total incoherence."
A lack of logical connection, order, integration, or consistency among different parts, ideas, or policies.
"Critics pointed out the striking incoherence of the administration's economic strategy."
The absence of a constant or predictable phase relationship between two or more waves oroscillations (in physics and optics).
"The spatial incoherence of ordinary white light prevents it from producing clear interference patterns without specialized filtering."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the early 17th century from the prefix in- ('not') and coherence, which ultimately derives from the Latin verb cohaerere ('to stick together'), from com- ('together') and haerere ('to stick or cling').