coherence

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UK /kəʊˈhɪəɹ.ən(t)s/ US /koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/

noun 5

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

internal

The argument had good internal coherence, with each point supporting the main conclusion.

ideological, intellectual, logical, theoretical

His argument had logical coherence, with each point supporting the next one clearly.

VERB + COHERENCE

have, possess

achieve, create, give sth, maintain

The new manager helped give coherence to the company's confusing policies.

lack

PREP

~ between

There was no coherence between what the manager said in the meeting and what actually happened.

~ in/within

The professor praised the logical coherence within the student's research paper.

PHRASES

a degree/sense of 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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts

coherency

noun — the state of cohering or sticking together

coherency
cohesion
cohesiveness

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

His arguments lacked coherence.

Wiktionary

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,

Wiktionary

He would then put down his pencil and stare in front of him, and wonder in what respects the world was different—it had, perhaps, more solidity, more coherence, more importance, greater depth.

Wiktionary

Coherence is dead.

Tatoeba · #1685735

I love coherence.

Tatoeba · #2127785

We recognize coherence in texts.

Tatoeba · #3075712

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