incoherency

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The quality of being incoherent; lack of coherence.

   “[…] Haste and Sickness made me rather venture on your good Nature, for the Pardon of a venial Fault, than put myself to the trouble of altering the Order of these Papers, and substituting new Transitions and Connections, in the room of those, with which I formerly made up the Chasms and Incoherency of the Tract, you now receive.”

   “Pardon, madam, the haste and incoherency of scrawls penned at so trying a moment.”

   “‘It can make no change. You do not understand my position,’ returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner.”

   “Incoherency had overtaken his speech, but he was unaware of it.”

2. (countable, usually)A thing which is incoherent.

   “But that vvhich vvould beſt of all juſtifie me, and the ſeeming incoherencies of ſome parts of my Diſcourse, vvould be the noble Authors Piece it ſelf, becauſe of the Antitheſis, and the forms of his Applications.”

   “For besides the unavoidable incoherencies, which must be reconciled and adjusted; one may safely affirm, that all popular theology, especially the scholastic, has a kind of appetite for absurdity and contradiction.”

   “[…] he took into his large moist palm the dry little hand of his friend, while they both broke out into the incoherencies of people meeting after a long time.”