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inconsistency - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being inconsistent.
- noun Something inconsistent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being inconsistent; want of consistency or agreement between ideas or actions; contradictory relation of parts or particulars; intrinsic opposition in fact or in principle; incongruity; contrariety; discrepancy.
- noun A want of consistency in feeling, idea, or act; lack of agreement or uniformity in manifestation; incongruity.
- noun Synonyms Incoherency, irreconcilability, discrepancy, contradictoriness. See
incompatible .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument, or narration; that which is inconsistent.
- noun Lack of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
inconsistent - noun logic an
incompatibility between twopropositions that cannot both betrue
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
- noun the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts
Etymologies
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Examples
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I believe one of the traditional liberal defenses of the inconsistency is an argument about strong/weak group relations.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Affirmative Action and Racial Profiling Revisited 2010
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Some French commentators criticized the president for what they called his inconsistency over China and human rights.
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The inconsistency is between one of their positions and YOUR idea of what their other position should be.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Much Easier to Fight Caricatures 2010
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This crazy vertebrae inconsistency is because the Two - and Three-toed sloths do not have a shared ancestor until you go back 40 MILLION YEARS.
Three things you might not have known about SLOTHS lili 2009
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The inconsistency is between one of their positions and YOUR idea of what their other position should be.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Much Easier to Fight Caricatures 2010
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This crazy vertebrae inconsistency is because the Two - and Three-toed sloths do not have a shared ancestor until you go back 40 MILLION YEARS.
Archive 2009-10-01 lili 2009
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The only inconsistency is the glaring, gaping one between his actions and his campaign rhetoric.
So much for those ‘Free Tibet’ bumper stickers. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Such inconsistency is interesting, though, and almost inevitable when one sees fit to defend the English language from “plagues”, “attacks”, and presumably imminent doom.
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But his inconsistency is troublesome and he left Tuesday's game and is day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
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The inconsistency is minor and arguably unimportant in a novel this lighthearted, but it's still bothersome.
Related Words
synonyms (177)
Words with the same meaning
- 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
- inconsequence
- 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
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- 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
- variableness
- variance
- variation
- variegation
- variety
- variousness
- versatility
- wantonness
- wavering
- waywardness
- whimsicality
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