inconsistency
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
inconsistency
- The state of being inconsistent.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC ↗, pages 4–5 ↗:
- It was a strange inconsistency, but never till then had I been so much struck with the worthless and frivolous life of society. Never till then did I feel the deep and eternal debt of gratitude that human nature owes to those who assert its higher influence; who feel their generous activity stirred by a thrice noble emulation; who appeal from the present to the future, and redeem their kind, by shewing of how much that is good and great ambition and genius are capable.
- (logic) An incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true.
- contrariety
- deviation
- difference
- disagreement
- disparity
- disproportion
- disproportionateness
- dissimilarity
- dissonance
- divergence
- incongruity
- inconsonance
- inequality
- paradox
- unlikeness
- variance
- Portuguese: inconsistência
- Spanish: inconsistencia
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