inconsistency

CEFRC1

/ˌɪnkənˈsɪst(ə)nsi/

noun

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noun
A difference or change that does not agree with earlier information.
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noun
Extra detail
An incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true.

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It was a strange inconsistency, but never till then had I been so much struck with the worthless and frivolous life of society. Never till then did I feel the deep and eternal debt of gratitude that human nature owes to those who assert its higher influence; who feel their generous activity stirred by a thrice noble emulation; who appeal from the present to the future, and redeem their kind, by shewing of how much that is good and great ambition and genius are capable.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 4–5

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