Meaning of COHERENCE
| Pronunciation: | | kow'heeruns
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- [n] logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts
- [n] the state of cohering or sticking together
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| | Synonyms: | | coherency, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
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| | Antonyms: | | incoherence, incoherency | | |
| | See Also: | | comprehensibility, connectedness, connection, consistency, continuity, link, understandability | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Co*her"ence\, Coherency \Co*her"en*cy\, n. [L.
cohaerentia: cf. F. coh['e]rence.]
1. A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the
same body; cohesion.
2. Connection or dependence, proceeding from the
subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or
purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of
philosophy; consecutiveness.
Coherence of discourse, and a direct tendency of all
the parts of it to the argument in hand, are most
eminently to be found in him. --Locke.
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