noun
Meaning 1
Local coherence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
consistency
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.
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Pronunciation
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/kənˈsɪs.tən.si/
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India: /ˈkən.sɪs.ˈʈen.siː/
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noun
Meaning 2
Correspondence or compatibility.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- They want to achieve a high degree of consistency in their process and their product.
Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 4
The degree of viscosity of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Mix it until it has the consistency of a thick paste.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: consistence
Antonyms: inconsistency
Broader terms: uniformity, uniformness
noun
Meaning 8
(logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: logicality, logicalness
noun
Meaning 9
the property of holding together and retaining its shape
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- wool has more body than rayon
- when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: consistence, eubstance, body
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: property
Narrower terms: gaseousness, viscosity, viscousness, thickness, thinness, hardness, softness, breakableness, unbreakableness, porosity, porousness, solidity, solidness
noun
Meaning 10
logical coherence and accordance with the facts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a rambling argument that lacked any consistency
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness
History
Etymology
By surface analysis, consistent + -cy, consistence + -y or consist + -ency.
Across languages
Translations
70 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: اِتِّسَاق (ittisāq) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Azerbaijani: ardıcıllıq — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Bulgarian: постоянство (postojanstvo) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Bulgarian: устойчивост (ustojčivost) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Catalan: consistència — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Esperanto: kohereco — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Finnish: johdonmukaisuus — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Finnish: yhdenmukaisuus — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Finnish: tasaisuus — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Galician: consistencia — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Georgian: მუდმივობა (mudmivoba) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Georgian: თანმიმდევრობა (tanmimdevroba) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Georgian: კონსისტენტურობა (ḳonsisṭenṭuroba) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Georgian: ერთიანობა (ertianoba) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Georgian: შეთანხმებულობა (šetanxmebuloba) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Georgian: ურყევობა (urq̇evoba) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- German: Beständigkeit — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- German: Regelmäßigkeit — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- German: Zuverlässigkeit — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- German: Verlässlichkeit — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Greek: συνέπεια (synépeia) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Indonesian: konsistensi — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Irish: comhsheasmhacht — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Italian: coerenza — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Italian: costanza — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Central Kurdish: سازگاری (sazgarî) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Central Kurdish: ڕێکی (rêkî) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Malay: ketekalan — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Malay: kekonsistenan — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Malay: konsistensi — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Norwegian: konsistens — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Polish: spójność — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Portuguese: consistência — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Romanian: consistență — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Russian: согласо́ванность (soglasóvannostʹ) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Russian: консисте́нтность (konsisténtnostʹ) — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Spanish: consistencia — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Tagalog: pagkamaugnayin — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Welsh: cysondeb — reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent
- Bulgarian: консистенция (konsistencija) — degree of viscosity of something
- Catalan: consistència — degree of viscosity of something
- Danish: konsistens — degree of viscosity of something
- Dutch: consistentie — degree of viscosity of something
- Finnish: koostumus — degree of viscosity of something
- French: consistance — degree of viscosity of something
- Georgian: კონსისტენცია (ḳonsisṭencia) — degree of viscosity of something
- German: Konsistenz — degree of viscosity of something
- Hungarian: állag — degree of viscosity of something
- Irish: comhsheasmhacht — degree of viscosity of something
- Italian: consistenza — degree of viscosity of something
- Kazakh: қоюлық (qoülyq) — degree of viscosity of something
- Kazakh: қоюлылық (qoülylyq) — degree of viscosity of something
- Kazakh: консистенция (konsistensiä) — degree of viscosity of something
- Norwegian Bokmål: konsistens — degree of viscosity of something
- Norwegian Nynorsk: konsistens — degree of viscosity of something
- Polish: konsystencja — degree of viscosity of something
- Portuguese: consistência — degree of viscosity of something
- Russian: консистенция (konsistencija) — degree of viscosity of something
- Swedish: konsistens — degree of viscosity of something
- Welsh: ansawdd — degree of viscosity of something
- Arabic: اِتِّسَاق (ittisāq) — logic: state of a system of axioms
- Catalan: consistència — logic: state of a system of axioms
- Dutch: samenhang — logic: state of a system of axioms
- Finnish: ristiriidattomuus — logic: state of a system of axioms
- German: Widerspruchsfreiheit — logic: state of a system of axioms
- German: Konsistenz — logic: state of a system of axioms
- Norwegian: konsistens — logic: state of a system of axioms
- Polish: niesprzeczność — logic: state of a system of axioms
- Romanian: consecvență — logic: state of a system of axioms
- Welsh: cysondeb — logic: state of a system of axioms
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