Coherence

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  • noun. The quality or state of cohering, especially a logical, orderly, and aesthetically consistent relationship of parts.
  • noun. The property of being coherent, as of waves.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In mathematics See adherence, 6.
  • noun. The act or state of cohering; a sticking or cleaving of one thing to another, or of parts of the same body to each other, or a cleaving together of two bodies, as by the force of attraction.
  • noun. Suitable connection or dependence, proceeding from the natural relation of parts or things to each other, as in the parts of a discourse or of any system; consistency.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
  • noun. 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; a logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts; consecutiveness.
  • noun. the state of cohering.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.
  • noun. a logical arrangements of parts
  • noun. the property of having the same wavelength and phase.
  • noun. Semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the state of cohering or sticking together
  • noun. logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts
    • Word Usage
    "I think the total lack of coherence from the administartion shows that Bush is right."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    incoherence  
    Equivalent
    coherency  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    comprehensibility  understandability  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adherence  appearance  clearance  disappearance  incoherence  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clarity  cogency  cohesion  compactness  completeness  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    accord  accordance  accretion  adherence  adhesion  
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