coherence
Meaning
- The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.
- 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.
Synonyms
sticking together
correspondence
link-up
chain of reasoning
logical connection
joining-up
holding-on
aftermath
Hyphenated as
co‧her‧ence
Etymology
From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia. Morphologically cohere + -ence.
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