consistency

Meanings

Plural: consistencies

Noun

• the property of holding together and retaining its shape
  • "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"
• a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
• logical coherence and accordance with the facts
  • "a rambling argument that lacked any consistency"
• (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another
• Local coherence.
• Correspondence or compatibility.
• Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
• The degree of viscosity of something.
• Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
• Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.

Synonyms

body, consistence, eubstance

Antonyms

inconsistency

Related Words

consist, consistence, consistent