The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence. Boyle.
Want of connection; incongruity; inconsistency; want of agreement or dependence of one part on another; as, the incoherence of arguments, facts, etc. Incoherences in matter, and suppositions without proofs, put handsomely together, are apt to pass for strong reason. Locke.
That which is incoherent. Crude incoherencies . . . and nauseous tautologies. South.
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