INCONSEQUENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inconsequence mean? 

• INCONSEQUENCE (noun)
  The noun INCONSEQUENCE has 2 senses:

1. having no important effects or influence

2. invalid or incorrect reasoning

  Familiarity information: INCONSEQUENCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCONSEQUENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having no important effects or influence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("inconsequence" is a kind of...):

insignificance (the quality of having little or no significance)

Antonym:

consequence (having important effects or influence)

Derivation:

inconsequent (lacking worth or importance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Invalid or incorrect reasoning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

illogic; illogicality; illogicalness; inconsequence

Hypernyms ("inconsequence" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inconsequence"):

invalidity; invalidness (illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses)

 Context examples 

Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)