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An inconsistency is a way that something does not match or agree with another part of itself — like two different answers to the same question, or a rule that gets followed sometimes but not other times. You can talk about an inconsistency in someone's story, in data, or in how rules are applied.
不一致、矛盾之處
組成in- (not, 不) + consistency (一致性)
同家族的字
- consistentinconsistency 是 consistent（一致的）加上 in-（不）之後變成的名詞
- consistencyconsistency 是「一致性」，inconsistency 就是它的相反
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
inconsistencynoun/ˌɪnkənˈsɪst(ə)nsi/
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The state of being inconsistent.
- 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.
- In her pamphlet on the Russian revolution she urged Lenin to introduce unfettered democracy and at the same time to crush all nationalist movements with an iron hand, not suspecting for a moment that there might be any inconsistency in these two demands.
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human-scienceslogicmathematicsAn incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。