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Definition of Inconsistency

Inconsistency

  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.
  2. Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument, or narration; that which is inconsistent.
  3. Want of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness.

Inconsistency Quotations

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Henry Ward Beecher

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph Addison

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Jonathan Swift

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.
Charles Eastman

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Franklin P. Jones
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Inconsistency Translations

inconsistency in German is Folgewidrigkeit
inconsistency in Spanish is incoherencia
inconsistency in Swedish is inkonsekvens

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