Coherence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coherence \Co*her"ence\, Coherency \Co*her"en*cy\, n. [L.
     cohaerentia: cf. F. coh['e]rence.]
     1. A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the
        same body; cohesion.
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     2. 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.
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              Coherence of discourse, and a direct tendency of all
              the parts of it to the argument in hand, are most
              eminently to be found in him.         --Locke.
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     3. the state of cohering.
  
     Syn: cohesion, cohesiveness.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  coherence
       n 1: the state of cohering or sticking together [syn: {coherency},
             {cohesion}, {cohesiveness}] [ant: {incoherence}]
       2: logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts [syn: {coherency}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "coherence":
     accord, accordance, accretion, adherence, adhesion, affinity,
     agglomeration, agglutination, agreement, assent, bond, chorus,
     clarity, clear-cutness, clearness, cling, clinging, clotting,
     clustering, coagulation, cohesion, cohesiveness, coincidence,
     compaction, compatibility, concert, concord, concordance,
     concretion, condensation, conformance, conformation, conformity,
     congealment, congelation, congeniality, conglobation,
     conglomeration, congruence, congruency, congruity, connectedness,
     consistency, consolidation, consonance, consort, cooperation,
     correspondence, crystallinity, definition, directness,
     distinctness, equivalence, explicitness, harmony, impartibility,
     indiscerptibility, indissolubility, indivisibility, infrangibility,
     infusibility, inseparability, insolubility, integrity,
     intersection, junction, limpidity, lucidity, oneness, overlap,
     parallelism, peace, pellucidity, perspicuity, plain English,
     plain speech, plain style, plainness, rapport, self-consistency,
     set, simplicity, solidarity, solidification, sticking,
     straightforwardness, structure, symmetry, sync, synchronism, tally,
     timing, transparency, transpicuity, unadorned style,
     unambiguousness, unequivocalness, uniformity, union, unison,
     unisonance, unity, unmistakableness