Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-CO-HER'ENCE, a. [or IN-CO-HER'EN-CY; in and coherence.]

1. Want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence; looseness or unconnected state of parts, as of a powder. Boyle.
2. Want of connection; incongruity; inconsistency; want of agreement, or dependence of one part on another; as, the incoherence of arguments, facts or principles.
3. Inconsistency; that which does not agree with other parts of the same thing.