coherence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   His arguments lacked coherence.

2. 2
   noun

   The quality of forming a unified whole.

   When I come to his connection with Blanche Stroeve I am exasperated by the fragmentariness of the facts at my disposal. To give my story coherence I should describe the progress of their tragic union, but I know nothing of the three months during which they lived together.

3. 3
   noun

   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. 4
   noun

   logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts

5. 5
   noun

   the state of cohering or sticking together

6. 6
   noun

   The property of having the same wavelength and phase.

7. 7
   noun

   A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.

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.