"incoherence" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪəɹəns/ Forms: incoherences [plural]
Etymology: From in- + coherence, formed on model of Italian incoerenza. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|in|coherence}} in- + coherence, {{cog|it|incoerenza}} Italian incoerenza Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} incoherence (countable and uncountable, plural incoherences)
  1. (uncountable) The quality of being incoherent.
    The quality of not making logical sense or of not being logically connected.
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-incoherence-en-noun-0AP7qhWx
  2. (uncountable) The quality of being incoherent.
    (obsolete) The quality of not holding together physically.
    Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-incoherence-en-noun-DyPBkOH0
  3. (countable) Something incoherent; something that does not make logical sense or is not logically connected. Tags: countable Translations (something incoherent): incohérence [feminine] (French), ασυναρτησία (asynartisía) [feminine] (Greek), incoherencia [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-incoherence-en-noun--8aU7LCY Disambiguation of 'something incoherent': 21 21 58 0
  4. (psychiatry) Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to others. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Psychiatry
    Sense id: en-incoherence-en-noun-uos1EdAr Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (quality of not making logical sense): unintelligibility Related terms: incoherency Translations (psychiatric term): inkoherencija (Lithuanian), инкогере́нтность (inkogeréntnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), инкогере́нция (inkogeréncija) [feminine] (Russian), бессвя́зность (bessvjáznostʹ) [feminine] (Russian) Translations (quality of being incoherent): несвързаност (nesvǎrzanost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), непоследователност (neposledovatelnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), incoherència [feminine] (Catalan), sekavuus (Finnish), epäjohdonmukaisuus (Finnish), ristiriitaisuus (Finnish), epäyhtenäisyys (Finnish), incohérence [feminine] (French), incoherencia [feminine] (Galician), Zusammenhanglosigkeit [feminine] (German), Inkohärenz [feminine] (German), ασυναρτησία (asynartisía) [feminine] (Greek), ασυνέχεια (asynécheia) [feminine] (Greek), ασυνάφεια (asynáfeia) [feminine] (Greek), incoerenza [feminine] (Italian), incoherencia [feminine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'quality of not making logical sense': 47 45 6 1 Disambiguation of 'psychiatric term': 39 39 6 16 Disambiguation of 'quality of being incoherent': 48 48 4 1

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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ασυνάφεια"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "quality of being incoherent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "incoerenza"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality of being incoherent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "incoherencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "something incoherent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "incohérence"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "asynartisía",
      "sense": "something incoherent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ασυναρτησία"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something incoherent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "incoherencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "psychiatric term",
      "word": "inkoherencija"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "inkogeréntnostʹ",
      "sense": "psychiatric term",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "инкогере́нтность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "inkogeréncija",
      "sense": "psychiatric term",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "инкогере́нция"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bessvjáznostʹ",
      "sense": "psychiatric term",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бессвя́зность"
    }
  ],
  "word": "incoherence"
}

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