inconsistency
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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