INCONSISTENCE
\ɪnkənsˈɪstəns], \ɪnkənsˈɪstəns], \ɪ_n_k_ə_n_s_ˈɪ_s_t_ə_n_s]\
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n. Want of consistence ; incoherence ; difference ; disagreement ; - such contrariety between things as prevents connection or subsistence ; incongruity ; incompatibility ; - discrepancy in speech or writing between one statement or argument and another ;- variance from one political opinion or system to another;- unsteadiness ; changeableness :- also inconsistency.
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Such opposition as that one proposition infers the negation of the other; such contrariety that both cannot be together; absurdity in argument or narration, argument or narrative where one part destroys the other; incongruity ; unsteadiness, changeableness.
By Thomas Sheridan
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