Coherence Definition

kō-hîrəns, -hĕr-
noun
The act or condition of cohering; cohesion.
Webster's New World
The quality of being logically integrated, consistent, and intelligible; congruity.
His story lacked coherence.
Webster's New World
That property of a set of waves or sources of waves in which the oscillations maintain a fixed relationship to each other.
Webster's New World

A logical arrangement of parts.

His arguments lacked coherence.
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Other Word Forms of Coherence

Noun

Singular:
coherence
Plural:
coherences

Origin of Coherence

  • From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia.

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Coherence Sentence Examples

  • The coherence of his writing lies in his personality.

  • Their ideas, thoughts or reasoning are lacking coherence.

  • Amid all the varying and contradictory phenomena of the universe there is something which gives coherence and intelligibility to them.

  • This would bring a greater coherence of worship among the chaos of local cults.

  • The rambling operations of the naval war till the close of 1780 - directed by the allies to such secondary objects as the capture of West Indian islands, or of Minorca and Gibraltar, and by Great Britain to defensive movements - began to assume a degree of coherence in 1781.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOH

Words Ending With

ECENCE

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Words Starting With C and Ending With E

Starts With C & Ends With EStarts With CO & Ends With EStarts With C & Ends With CE

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