Coherence
/kəʊˈhɪəɹ.ən(t)s/ noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency. countable, uncountable
"His arguments lacked coherence."
- 2 logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts wordnet
- 3 The quality of forming a unified whole. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 4 the state of cohering or sticking together wordnet
- 5 A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing. countable, uncountable
"In a lesson on coherence in academic writing, students engaged in the following discussion on the online platform TodaysMeet."
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- 6 The property of having the same wavelength and phase. countable, uncountable
- 7 A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"We recognize coherence in texts."
Etymology
From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia. By surface analysis, cohere + -ence.