Inconsistency

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inconsistency \In`con*sist"en*cy\, n.; pl. {Inconsistencies}.
     [Cf. F. inconsistance.]
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     1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in
        respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between
        two things that both can not exist or be true together;


        disagreement; incompatibility.
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              There is a perfect inconsistency between that which
              is of debt and that which is of free gift. --South.
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     2. Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or
        irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument,
        or narration; that which is inconsistent.
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              If a man would register all his opinions upon love,
              politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of
              inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at
              last!                                 --Swift.
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     3. Lack of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness;
        changeableness; variableness.
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              Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with
              ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature.
                                                    --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inconsistency
       n 1: the relation between propositions that cannot both be true
            at the same time [syn: {incompatibility}, {mutual
            exclusiveness}, {repugnance}]
       2: the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious
          uniformity among things or parts [ant: {consistency}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  175 Moby Thesaurus words for "inconsistency":
     aloofness, ambiguity, ambivalence, anarchy, antagonism, antilogy,
     antinomy, antipathy, antithesis, asymmetry, capriciousness,
     changeability, changeableness, chaos, choppiness, clashing,
     collision, conflict, confrontation, confusion, contradiction,
     contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety,
     contrast, counterposition, cross-purposes, dappleness, departure,
     desultoriness, deviability, deviation, difference, differentiation,
     diffusion, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity,
     discongruity, discontinuity, discordance, discrepancy,
     discreteness, disjunction, dislocation, disorder, disparity,
     dispersal, dispersion, disproportion, disproportionateness,
     dissent, dissimilarity, dissolution, dissonance, distinction,
     distinctness, divarication, divergence, divergency,
     diversification, diversity, eccentricity, entropy, equivocality,
     erraticism, far cry, fickleness, flightiness, freakishness, heresy,
     heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hostility, illogic, illogicality,
     illogicalness, impulsiveness, inaccordance, incoherence,
     incommensurability, incompatibility, inconclusiveness, incongruity,
     inconsonance, inconstancy, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony,
     inimicalness, instability, invalidity, irrationality,
     irreconcilability, irregularity, jerkiness, mercuriality, mixture,
     moodiness, motleyness, mutability, nonadhesion, noncohesion,
     noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformability, nonconformance,
     nonconformism, nonconformity, nonobservance, nonstandardization,
     nonuniformity, odds, oppositeness, opposition, opposure,
     oppugnance, oppugnancy, originality, otherness, oxymoron, paradox,
     perversity, pluralism, polarity, protest, raggedness,
     reasonlessness, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy,
     refractoriness, repugnance, restlessness, scattering,
     self-contradiction, senselessness, separateness, shiftiness,
     showdown, unadherence, unadhesiveness, uncertainty,
     unconformability, unconformism, unconformity, undependability,
     unevenness, unfixedness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability,
     unreasonableness, unreliability, unscientificness, unsettledness,
     unsoundness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness,
     untenableness, untenacity, variability, variance, variation,
     variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wantonness,
     wavering, waywardness, whimsicality