Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.

    His arguments lacked coherence.

    Kohärenz, Geschlossenheit

    свя́зностьsvjáznostʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)The quality of forming a unified whole.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing.

    Zusammenhang

    после́довательностьposlédovatelʹnostʹ

    logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts

  4. (countable, uncountable)The property of having the same wavelength and phase.

    Kohärenz

    когере́нтностьkogeréntnostʹ

  5. (countable, uncountable)A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Academic writing needs to show cohesion and coherence.

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  2. We recognize coherence in texts.

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  3. He regained a little coherence.

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  4. I love coherence.

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  5. Coherence is dead.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
quality of cohering; of being coherent:
logical arrangements of parts:
having the same wavelength and phase:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
quality of cohering; of being coherent:
logical arrangements of parts:

Origin

From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia. By surface analysis, cohere + -ence.

From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia. By surface analysis, cohere + -ence.

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Forms

plural: coherences
Singularcoherence
Pluralcoherences

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

15 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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