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coherence

noun
/kəʊˈhɪəɹ.ən(t)s/UK/koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/US

Etymology

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 *-yós 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.

  1. derived from cohaerentia
  2. derived from coherence

Definitions

  1. The quality of cohering, or being coherent

    The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.

    • His arguments lacked coherence.
    • He would then put down his pencil and stare in front of him, and wonder in what respects the world was different—it had, perhaps, more solidity, more coherence, more importance, greater depth.

  2. The quality of forming a unified whole.

  3. A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing.

    • In a lesson on coherence in academic writing, students engaged in the following discussion on the online platform TodaysMeet.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The property of having the same wavelength and phase.

    2. A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.

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Derived

anticoherence, autocoherence, bicoherence, coherence time, coherin, multicoherence, overcoherence, quantum coherence, recoherence, supercoherence, tricoherence, unicoherence

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for coherence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA