inconsequence

1. 1.

   having no important effects or influence

   Antonymsconsequence

   Broaderinsignificance
2. 2.

   invalid or incorrect reasoning

   Synonymsillogicalityillogicalnessillogic

   Broaderquality

   Narrowerinvalidity

Other forms of inconsequence

plural

inconsequences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inconsequence

What does inconsequence mean?

inconsequence means "having no important effects or influence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inconsequence?

inconsequence has 4 syllables: in-con-seq-uence. The stress falls on "con".

What is another word for inconsequence?

Close synonyms include illogicality, illogicalness, illogic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of inconsequence?

The recorded antonyms are consequence.

Is inconsequence a common word?

inconsequence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.