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consistency

  • noun
  • con·sis·ten·cy
  • /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/

Local coherence.

Other meanings

  1. Correspondence or compatibility.

  2. Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.

    “They want to achieve a high degree of consistency in their process and their product.”

Related words

  • endoconsistency
  • exoconsistency
  • nonconsistency
  • paraconsistency
  • photoconsistency
  • sparsistency
  • unconsistency
  • self-consistency

Example sentences

  • “Trust can only be earned through consistency.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “consistency” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.