coherence

Etymology

From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia. Morphologically cohere + -ence.

noun

  1. The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.
    His arguments lacked coherence.
  2. The quality of forming a unified whole.
  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. 2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1088
  4. (physics, of waves) The property of having the same wavelength and phase.
  5. (linguistics, translation studies) A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.
    Coordinate term: cohesion

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