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coherency en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kəʊˈhɪə.ɹən.si/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /koʊˈhɪə.ɹən.si/ (General-American)
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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 cohaerentia English coherency From Latin cohaerēntia.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state of being coherent; a coherent relationship.
   • By ten o’clock the police organisation, and by midday even the railway organisations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body. 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Exodus from London”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book I (The Coming of the Martians), page 150:
   • even in all things therein created, there must be some image, somewhat resembling, and having coherencie with the workeman that wrought and framed them. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
   • Then, as she released me, I made it out to her, made it out perhaps only now with full coherency even to myself. “Two hours ago, in the garden”—I could scarce articulate—“Flora saw!” 1898, Henry James, chapter VII, in The Turn of the Screw:

Forms

Deriveds

decoherency · incoherency