Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Agreement or logical coherence among things or parts: a rambling argument that lacked any consistency.
- n. Correspondence among related aspects; compatibility: questioned the consistency of the administration's actions with its stated policy.
- n. Reliability or uniformity of successive results or events: pitched with remarkable consistency throughout the season.
- n. Degree of density, firmness, or viscosity: beat the mixture to the consistency of soft butter.
Wiktionary
- n. local coherence
- n. correspondence or compatibility
- n. reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- n. the degree of viscosity of something
- n. logic Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory
WordNet 3.0
- n. the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- n. logical coherence and accordance with the facts
- n. (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another
- n. a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
Examples
“It tastes almost like pastry cream, but the consistency is almost identical to Swiss meringue buttercream!”
“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.
“Like her husband, she could see no point in consistency, which is the very mortar of society.”
“Bradshaw could have adhered to it, without any other reason than the maintenance of what he called consistency, but which was in fact doggedness.”
“White House spokesman Jay Carney on Wednesday expressed concerns the bill could cause what he called "consistency issues" with the nation's international commitments.”
“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.”
“Tagged with consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, health care, John Boehner, morally odious morons, politics, Republicans”
“The sticking point was that deficit-hawk Republicans want to delay the return of the estate tax — because consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
“Two, the context scale (of which consistency is a part.)”
“Morrison needs an editor that "gets" him to reign him in, but only so far as to maintain consistency with himself and dialogue with the reader, rather than to neuter or abort his ideas.”
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rolig "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. Jul 16, 2011