incohesive
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
Meaning
adj
Not cohesive.
noun
1868, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times
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noun
1868, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times: It is a faithful picture of the internal state of the French nation in the fourteenth century; a nation in labor of formation, a nation whose elements, as yet scattered and incohesive, though under one and the same name, were fermenting each in its own quarter and independently of the rest, with a tendency to mutual coalescence in a powerful unity, but, as yet, far from succeeding in it.
Uncountable
noun
1913, Brooks Adams, The Theory of Social Revolutions: One of the difficulties, therefore, which capital has to meet, by the aid of such administrative ability as it can command, is how to keep order when society no longer rests on the cohesive family, but on highly volatilized individuals as incohesive as grains of sand.
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Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: in