coherence
Definitions
noun
The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.
His arguments lacked coherence.
Mrs. Grose listened with dumb emotion; she forbore to ask me what this meaning might be; so that, presently, to put the thing with some coherence and with the mere aid of her presence to my own mind, I went on: “That he’s an injury to the others.”
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.
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.
The property of having the same wavelength and phase.
A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.