Etymology

incoherence

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Today it means: The quality of not making logical sense or of not being logically connected. Full definition →

English coherence ← Middle French coherence ← Latin cohaerentia
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishin-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  8. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  9. Proto-Italic*kom
  10. Proto-Italic*kom-
  11. Latincon-
  12. Latinhaereō
  13. Latincohaereō
  14. Latincohaerēns
  15. Latincohaerentia
  16. Middle Frenchcoherence
  17. Englishcoherence
  18. English todayincoherence

From in- + coherence, formed on model of Italian incoerenza.

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