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noun

Coherency, Coherence n.

A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.

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; a logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts; 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."

The state of cohering.

Synonyms: cohesion, cohesiveness.

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Etymology of 'Coherence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coherence" Quotes from Famous Books

... three pictures thrown into one, and in some respects well governed as a single composition. Conceive, however, this subject bereft of the darkened corners, and the gradations which create a focus. The figures would lie upon the canvas somewhat in the shape of a letter Z, devoid of essential coherence, with the details in the ...

— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore

... the days of the madrigalists. The work is unified not only by the consolidation of the four movements into one, but as well by a central movement, a "durchfuehrung" which, introduced between the scherzo and the adagio, reveals the inner coherence of all the themes. There is no sacrifice of logic to the rules of harmony. Indeed, the work is characterized by a certain uncompromisingness and sharpness in its harmonies. The instrumental coloring is prismatic, all the registers of the strings being utilized with great deftness. Exclusive ...

— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld

... formless; no doubt it was the first which came to hand for expressing what he had to say. He begins sentences and omits to finish them; he goes off into digressions and forgets to pick up the line of thought he has dropped; he throws out his ideas in lumps instead of fusing them into mutual coherence. ...

— The Life of St. Paul • James Stalker

... better appellation than that of "Anti-Federalists." In the process of time their great chief gave them a name, a set of principles, a war-cry, an organization, and at last an overwhelming victory. They began to take on something like form and coherence in resisting Hamilton's financial measures; but the success of his policy was so dazzling that they were rather cowed by it, and were left by their defeat little better off in the way of discipline than ...

— George Washington, Vol. II • Henry Cabot Lodge

... borough Once an eagle used to fly, Making observations thorough From his station in the sky, And presenting the appearance Of an animated V, Like the gulls that lend coherence Unto ...

— Fables for the Frivolous • Guy Whitmore Carryl

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