coherence : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: coherence	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coherence n the state of cohering or sticking together [syn: coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness] Antonym(s): incoherence, incoherency logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts Synonym(s): coherence, coherency
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Coherence \Coher"ence\, Coherency \Coher"ency\, n. [L. cohaerentia: cf. F. coh[82]rence.] 1. A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion. 2. Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness. Coherence* of discourse, and a direct tendency of all the parts of it to the argument in hand, are most eminently to be found in him. --Locke.