coherence
coherence Lexical Profile
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• noun
The quality of being logical, consistent, and easy to understand.
"The professor praised the student's essay for its structural clarity and analytical coherence."
The quality of forming a unified, integrated, and harmonious whole.
"Urban planners worked closely with local architects to maintain visual coherence across the historic district."
A fixed relationship between the phase of waves in a beam of radiation of a single frequency (in physics).
"Laser light is characterized by its high degree of spatial and temporal coherence."
Word Nuance & Usage
In writing and linguistics, 'coherence' refers to the overall conceptual and logical clarity of a text for the reader, whereas 'cohesion' refers specifically to the grammatical and lexical links that connect sentences together.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from French cohérence or directly from Latin cohaerentia, derived from cohaerēre ('to stick together'), from com- ('together') and haerēre ('to stick or cling').