Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Agreement or logical coherence among things or parts.
- noun Correspondence among related aspects; compatibility.
- noun Reliability or uniformity of successive results or events.
- noun Degree of density, firmness, or viscosity.
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- noun
local coherence - noun
correspondence orcompatibility - noun
reliability oruniformity ; the quality of beingconsistent - noun the
degree ofviscosity of something - noun logic Freedom from
contradiction ; the state of asystem ofaxioms such that none of thepropositions deduced from them aremutually contradictory
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- noun logical coherence and accordance with the facts
- noun (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another
- noun a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
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Examples
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It tastes almost like pastry cream, but the consistency is almost identical to Swiss meringue buttercream!
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Of course, I suspect that their consistency is the result of being deluded enough to fail to understand the way the rest of the nation views SS rather than any intellectual integrity.
Think Progress » Tea party leaders say they would ‘absolutely’ abolish Social Security. 2010
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It tastes almost like pastry cream, but the consistency is almost identical to Swiss meringue buttercream!
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Like her husband, she could see no point in consistency, which is the very mortar of society.
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Like her husband, she could see no point in consistency, which is the very mortar of society.
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Bradshaw could have adhered to it, without any other reason than the maintenance of what he called consistency, but which was in fact doggedness.
Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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White House spokesman Jay Carney on Wednesday expressed concerns the bill could cause what he called "consistency issues" with the nation's international commitments.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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White House spokesman Jay Carney on Wednesday expressed concerns the bill could cause what he called "consistency issues" with the nation's international commitments.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Let me repeat for the record, our experience with S.O.S.E. has been flawless both in consistency and timeliness of its response to our tripped home alarm since the system was installed.
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Tagged with consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, health care, John Boehner, morally odious morons, politics, Republicans
rolig commented on the word consistency
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance", Essays and Lectures (New York: Library of America, 1983), 265.
July 16, 2011