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The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.countableuncountable
- His arguments lacked coherence.
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The quality of forming a unified whole.countableuncountable
- 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
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A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing.countableuncountable
- In a lesson on coherence in academic writing, students engaged in the following discussion on the online platform TodaysMeet.
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The property of having the same wavelength and phase.countableuncountable
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A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.countableuncountable
syn. coherency
ant. incoherence