inconsistency
nounUK /ˌɪnkənˈsɪst(ə)nsi/ · US /ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsi/
1
The state of being inconsistent.
- It was a strange inconsistency, but never till then had I been so much struck with the worthless and frivolous life of society. Never till then did I feel the deep and eternal debt of gratitude that human nature owes to those who assert its higher influence; who feel their generous activity stirred by a thrice noble emulation; who appeal from the present to the future, and redeem their kind, by shewing of how much that is good and great ambition and genius are capable.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 4–5:
2
Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences An incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true.
- Synonyms
- contrariety, deviation, difference, disagreement, disparity, disproportion, disproportionateness, dissimilarity, dissonance, divergence, incongruity, inconsonance, inequality, paradox, unlikeness, variance
- Antonyms
- consistency
- Derived terms
- dynamic inconsistency, time inconsistency