"inconsistency" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌɪnkənˈsɪst(ə)nsi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsi/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-inconsistency.ogg [Mid-Atlantic] Forms: inconsistencies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} inconsistency (countable and uncountable, plural inconsistencies)
  1. The state of being inconsistent. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being inconsistent): անհետեւողականություն (anhetewoġakanutʻyun) (Armenian), անկապակացություն (ankapakacʻutʻyun) (Armenian), inconsistència [feminine] (Catalan), inkonsistensi (Cebuano), inconsistentie [feminine] (Dutch), tegenstrijdigheid [feminine] (Dutch), malakordo (Esperanto), ανακολουθία (anakolouthía) [feminine] (Greek), neamh-chomhsheasmhacht [feminine] (Irish), neamhfhreagracht [feminine] (Irish), ねじれ (nejire) (Japanese), 不一致 (fuicchi) (Japanese), kesenjangan (Malay), haraki (Maori), inconsistência [feminine] (Portuguese), inconsistență (Romanian), mì-chòrdadh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), nedosljenost [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), inconsistencia [feminine] (Spanish), pagkadimaugnayin (Tagalog), непослідо́вність (neposlidóvnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), неузго́дженість (neuzhódženistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), невідпові́дність (nevidpovídnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-inconsistency-en-noun-BMw1Pvpz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of 'state of being inconsistent': 96 4
  2. (logic) An incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Logic
    Sense id: en-inconsistency-en-noun-idsJ1q4S Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dynamic inconsistency, time inconsistency

Inflected forms

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