Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The state of being coherent; a coherent relationship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: coherence
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: comprehensibility, understandability
noun
the state of cohering or sticking together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: connection, link, connectedness
Narrower terms: consistency, continuity
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Latin cohaerēns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin cohaerentia English coherency From Latin cohaerēntia.
