Definition of "incoherency"
incoherency
noun
usually uncountable, plural incoherencies
The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.
Quotations
[…] Haste and Sickness made me rather venture on your good Nature, for the Pardon of a venial Fault, than put myself to the trouble of altering the Order of these Papers, and substituting new Transitions and Connections, in the room of those, with which I formerly made up the Chasms and Incoherency of the Tract, you now receive.
1686, Robert Boyle, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Receiv’d Notion of Nature, London: John Taylor, Conclusion, page 409
Quotations
For besides the unavoidable incoherencies, which must be reconciled and adjusted; one may safely affirm, that all popular theology, especially the scholastic, has a kind of appetite for absurdity and contradiction.
1757, David Hume, “The Natural History of Religion,” section 11, in Four Dissertations, London: A. Millar, p. 70