Inconsistency
[ɪnkən'sɪst(ə)nsɪ] or [,ɪnkən'sɪstənsi]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument, or narration; that which is inconsistent.
(n.) Want of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness.
Checker: Roy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Incongruity, incompatibility, unsuitableness, incoherence.[2]. Contrariety, contradiction.
Typist: Miguel
Examples
- Has there been any inconsistency on his side to create alarm? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The inconsistency and recklessness of Traddles were not to be exceeded by any real politician. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Why did you who read this, commit that not dissimilar inconsistency of your own last year, last month, last week? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But there is no inconsistency--ha--not the least, in my feeling hurt, and yet complaining principally for your sake, Amy. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She felt its inconsistency; but Mr. Knightley was so obliging as to put up with it, and seek no farther explanation. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Reader, if in the course of this work, you find that my opinion of Dr. John undergoes modification, excuse the seeming inconsistency. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- From these circumstances, I have thought there was some inconsistency in our common mode of teaching languages. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And here we may be charged with inconsistency in making the proposal at all. Plato. The Republic.
- And what do you suppose, you conceited female, said Mr. Cruncher, with unconscious inconsistency, that the worth of _your_ prayers may be? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Well, I am convinced that there is a vast deal of inconsistency in almost every human character. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Isocrates, in what is called his discourse against the sophists, reproaches the teachers of his own times with inconsistency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Do not fancy, reader, that there was any inconsistency in the priest's presence at this fête. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Well, my insane inconsistency had its reward. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There is no inconsistency in saying that in schools there is usually both too much and too little information supplied by others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But how could I, a poor dazed village lad, avoid that wonderful inconsistency into which the best and wisest of men fall every day? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If the same scholastic method is in force there, all that would be needed to crush socialism is to show its dogmatic inconsistencies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is full of inconsistencies, and though borrowed from Plato, shows but a superficial acquaintance with his writings. Plato. The Republic.
- I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It is necessary to keep these inconsistencies of John's character in view, that the reader may understand his conduct during the present evening. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This must be one of Nature's inconsistencies. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, _do_ divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Inconsistencies, answered Imlac, cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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