coherence.
The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.
Meaning & usage
The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.
His arguments lacked coherence.
The quality of forming a unified whole.
A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing.
The property of having the same wavelength and phase.
A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Latin cohaerēns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin cohaerentiader. Middle French coherenceder. English coherence From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia. By surface analysis, cohere + -ence.
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