coherence en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/ (General-American)
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- /kəʊˈhɪəɹ.ən(t)s/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
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 cohaerentiader. Middle French coherenceder. English coherence From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia. By surface analysis, cohere + -ence.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.
Mrs. Grose listened with dumb emotion; she forbore to ask me what this meaning might be; so that, presently, to put the thing with some coherence and with the mere aid of her presence to my own mind, I went on: “That he’s an injury to the others.”
1898, Henry James, chapter II, in The Turn of the Screw:His arguments lacked coherence.
He would then put down his pencil and stare in front of him, and wonder in what respects the world was different—it had, perhaps, more solidity, more coherence, more importance, greater depth.
1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XXII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:
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(countable, uncountable) The quality of forming a unified whole.
When I come to his connection with Blanche Stroeve I am exasperated by the fragmentariness of the facts at my disposal. To give my story coherence I should describe the progress of their tragic union, but I know nothing of the three months during which they lived together.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
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(countable, uncountable) A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing.
In a lesson on coherence in academic writing, students engaged in the following discussion on the online platform TodaysMeet.
2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1088:
- (countable, of waves, uncountable) The property of having the same wavelength and phase.
- (countable, uncountable) A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| coherences | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| cohærence | alternative, archaic | lexicographic |
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Deriveds
coherin · bicoherence · anticoherence · multicoherence · coherence time · supercoherence · tricoherence · recoherence · optical coherence tomography · quantum coherence · unicoherence · autocoherence · overcoherence
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Translations (64)
it coerenza (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · de Geschlossenheit (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · ca coherència (having the same wavelength and phase) · tr bağdaşım (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · bg кохерентност (having the same wavelength and phase) · fi kokonaisuus (logical arrangements of parts) · ca coherència (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · ru когере́нтность (having the same wavelength and phase) · fi johdonmukaisuus (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · pl koherencja (having the same wavelength and phase) · cs soudržnost (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · be звя́знасць (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · cs koherence (having the same wavelength and phase) · pt coerência (having the same wavelength and phase) · tr insicam (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · el συνάφεια (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · ca coherència (logical arrangements of parts) · be кагерэ́нтнасць (having the same wavelength and phase) · ja コヒーレンシ (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · ca concordança (semantic relationship) · ja 辻褄 (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · el συνοχή (logical arrangements of parts) · el συνοχή (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · pl spójność (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · pl koherencja (logical arrangements of parts) · ja 一貫 (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · fi koherenssi (semantic relationship) · ru после́довательность (logical arrangements of parts) · yue 倫次 /伦次 (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · es coherencia (logical arrangements of parts) · fi koherenssi (having the same wavelength and phase) · bg съгласуваност (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · fi koherenssi (logical arrangements of parts) · pl kohezja (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · de Zusammenhang (logical arrangements of parts) · be скла́днасць (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · pt coerência (logical arrangements of parts) · tr tutarlılık (logical arrangements of parts) · el συνάφεια (logical arrangements of parts) · bg свързване (logical arrangements of parts) · tr uyumluluk (logical arrangements of parts) · tr koherent (having the same wavelength and phase) · cmn 連貫性 /连贯性 (semantic relationship) · fi yhtenäisyys (logical arrangements of parts) · el συμφωνία (having the same wavelength and phase) · pl koherencja (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · es coherencia (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · de Kohärenz (having the same wavelength and phase) · pl spójność (logical arrangements of parts) · pt coerência (semantic relationship) · pl koherencja (semantic relationship) · pl kohezja (logical arrangements of parts) · pt coerência (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · no sammenheng (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · tr tutarlılık (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · tr bağlaşıklık (semantic relationship) · be паслядо́ўнасць (logical arrangements of parts) · lt darna (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · tr âhenk (logical arrangements of parts) · ru свя́зность (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · fr cohérence (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · tr tutarlık (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · de Kohärenz (quality of cohering; of being coherent) · la cohaerentia (quality of cohering; of being coherent)