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The quality of being incogitative; want of thought or of the power of thinking. Wollaston.

The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence. Boyle.

Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances. Woodward.

The quality of being incoincident; want of coincidence. [R.]

Want of comity; incivility; rudeness. [R.]

al of sufficient measure or extent; not adequate; as, our means are incommensurate to our wants.

e to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.

Want of compassion or pity. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. "Some inherent incompetency." Gladstone.

Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit. Incompetent to perform the duties of the place. Macaulay.

Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. Incomplete equation (Alg.), an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0.

Want of completion; incompleteness. Smart.

Want of comprehension or understanding. "These mazes and incomprehensions." Bacon.

Want of concinnity or congruousness; unsuitableness. There is an inconcinnity in admitting these words. Trench.

Want of conformity; nonconformity. [Obs.]

Want of congruence; incongruity. Boyle.

The quality or state of being incongruous; want of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety. The fathers make use of this acknowledgment of the incongruity of images to the Deity, from thence to prove the incongruity of the worship of them. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.

Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.

Want of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness. Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature. Addison.