coherence

UK /kəʊˈhɪəɹ.ən(t)s/ US /koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/
noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

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.”

2

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

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

The property of having the same wavelength and phase.

5

A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.

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