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
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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.
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