coherence

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Coherency

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cohesion coherency connection unity continuity consistency clarity rationality cohesiveness comprehensibility union order flow consonance concordance
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Antonyms

incoherence babel derangement pandemonium bedlam welter
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Hypernyms

connection link connectedness comprehensibility understandability

Hyponyms

continuity consistency

Related terms

cohesion

Phrases with the word

coherence of ideas lack of coherence optical coherence tomography coherence of power coherence time quantum coherence

Examples

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. Herbert Read

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. Benjamin N. Cardozo

I must no less commend the study of anatomy, which whosoever considers, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxal, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature. Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies. Tom Peters

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real. Christian Lous Lange

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form. Allen Tate

Close letter words and terms

coherald cohere cohere to coherence of ideas coherence of power coherence time