coherence
The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.
Example
“His arguments lacked coherence.”
Other meanings
The quality of forming a unified whole.
A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing.
Synonyms
- cohesion
Related words
- anticoherence
- autocoherence
- bicoherence
- coherin
- multicoherence
- overcoherence
- recoherence
- supercoherence
- tricoherence
- unicoherence
- coherence time
- quantum coherence
Word history
From Latin "cohaerentia".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “coherence” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.