Antonyms for coherence
koʊˈhɪər əns, -ˈhɛr-co·her·ence

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1. coherencenoun

   Antonyms:
   incoherence

2. coherencenoun

   Antonyms:
   incoherence

3. coherencenoun

   His arguments lacked coherence.

   Antonyms:
   incoherence

4. coherencenoun

   Antonyms:
   incoherence

5. coherencenoun

   Antonyms:
   incoherence

Matched Categories

1. • Comprehensibility
   • Connectedness

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesivenessnoun

   the state of cohering or sticking together

   Antonyms:
   incoherence, incoherency

   Synonyms:
   gluiness, coherency, viscidness, tackiness, cohesion, ropiness, viscidity, cohesiveness, glueyness, gumminess

2. coherence, coherencynoun

   logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts

   Antonyms:
   incoherence, incoherency

   Synonyms:
   cohesiveness, cohesion, coherency

How to use coherence in a sentence?

1. Luis Buñuel:

   You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

2. The Global Zero report:

   At the brink of conflict, nuclear command and warning networks around the world may be besieged by electronic intruders whose onslaught degrades the coherence and rationality of nuclear decision-making.

3. Jonathan Hillman:

   This has the potential to undermine the Belt and Road coherence and its ability to achieve the goals that Chinese officials actually talk about.

4. Nicholas Dungan:

   There is some potential for some form of leadership or some form of policy coherence going forward, the trouble is that policy coherence may be something very new from David Cameron. We haven't had much or it in the last five years -- there is a big question about his political maturity.

5. Tim Blake Nelson:

   It is a movie about the unlikely but inevitable coherence of modern life and how it is more important than ever that we recognize how close we are to one another.

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