From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inconsistency \In'con*sist"en*cy\, noun; pl. {Inconsistencies}. [Cf. F. inconsistance.]
1. 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.
There is a perfect inconsistency between that which is of debt and that which is of free gift. --South.
2. Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument, or narration; that which is inconsistent.
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! --Swift.
3. Lack of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness.
Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time [syn: {incompatibility}, {mutual exclusiveness}, {repugnance}]
2: the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts [ant: {consistency}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
175 Moby Thesaurus words for "inconsistency": aloofness, ambiguity, ambivalence, anarchy, antagonism, antilogy, antinomy, antipathy, antithesis, asymmetry, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, chaos, choppiness, clashing, collision, conflict, confrontation, confusion, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, counterposition, cross-purposes, dappleness, departure, desultoriness, deviability, deviation, difference, differentiation, diffusion, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discontinuity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disjunction, dislocation, disorder, disparity, dispersal, dispersion, disproportion, disproportionateness, dissent, dissimilarity, dissolution, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversity, eccentricity, entropy, equivocality, erraticism, far cry, fickleness, flightiness, freakishness, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hostility, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, impulsiveness, inaccordance, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, inconclusiveness, incongruity, inconsonance, inconstancy, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, instability, invalidity, irrationality, irreconcilability, irregularity, jerkiness, mercuriality, mixture, moodiness, motleyness, mutability, nonadhesion, noncohesion, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformability, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonobservance, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, odds, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, originality, otherness, oxymoron, paradox, perversity, pluralism, polarity, protest, raggedness, reasonlessness, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, repugnance, restlessness, scattering, self-contradiction, senselessness, separateness, shiftiness, showdown, unadherence, unadhesiveness, uncertainty, unconformability, unconformism, unconformity, undependability, unevenness, unfixedness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unreasonableness, unreliability, unscientificness, unsettledness, unsoundness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, untenableness, untenacity, variability, variance, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wantonness, wavering, waywardness, whimsicality
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