English-Thai Dictionary
inconsistency
N ความ ไม่ สอดคล้องกัน ความ ไม่ลงรอยกัน incongruity congruity consistency kwam-mai-sod-klong-kan
inconsistency
N สิ่ง ที่ ไม่ สอดคล้องกัน incongruity congruity consistency sing-ti-mai-sod-klong-kan
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
INCONSISTENCY
In `con *sist "en *cy, n.; pl. Inconsistencies. Etym: [Cf. F.inconsistance. ]
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. There is a perfect inconsistency between that which is of debt and that which is of free gift. South.
2. Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument, or narration; that which is inconsistent. If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! Swift.
3. Want of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness. Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature. Addison.
New American Oxford Dictionary
inconsistency
in con sist en cy |ˌinkənˈsistənsē ˈˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsi | ▶noun ( pl. inconsistencies ) the fact or state of being inconsistent: inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behavior. • an inconsistent element or an instance of being inconsistent: the single glaring inconsistency in the argument. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from inconsistent, on the pattern of consistency .
Oxford Dictionary
inconsistency
in |con ¦sist |ency |ɪnkənˈsɪst (ə )nsi | ▶noun ( pl. inconsistencies ) [ mass noun ] the fact or state of being inconsistent: the inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour. • [ count noun ] an inconsistent aspect or element: a book riddled with inconsistencies and contradictions. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from inconsistent, on the pattern of consistency .
Oxford Thesaurus
inconsistency
inconsistency noun 1 he earned a reputation for political inconsistency: unpredictability, inconstancy, lack of consistency, changeableness, variability, instability, irregularity, unevenness, unsteadiness; self-contradiction, self-contradictoriness, contradiction, contrariety; capriciousness, fickleness, unreliability, undependability, flightiness, volatility; rare erraticism. ANTONYMS consistency. 2 the inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour: incompatibility, conflict, difference, dissimilarity, lack of similarity, disagreement, lack of accord, opposition, clash, irreconcilability, lack of congruence, incongruity, lack of harmony, mismatch, discordance, disparity, discrepancy; rare disconsonance, inconsonance, repugnancy, oppugnancy. ANTONYMS consistency, harmony.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
inconsistency
in con sis ten cy /ɪ̀nkənsɪ́st (ə )nsi /名詞 複 -cies U 不一致, 矛盾 ; C 矛盾した行為 [言葉 ].
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