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English noun: consistency | |||
| 1. | consistency (attribute) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | ||
| Samples | Wool has more body than rayon. When the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake. | ||
| Synonyms | body, consistence, eubstance | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | property | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | breakableness, gaseousness, hardness, porosity, porousness, softness, solidity, solidness, thickness, thinness, unbreakableness, viscosity, viscousness | ||
| Attribute | thick, thin | ||
| 2. | consistency (attribute) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | ||
| Synonyms | consistence | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | uniformity, uniformness | ||
| Antonyms | inconsistency | ||
| 3. | consistency (state) logical coherence and accordance with the facts | ||
| Samples | A rambling argument that lacked any consistency. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness | ||
| 4. | consistency (attribute) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | logicality, logicalness | ||
| Domain category | logic | ||
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