consistency
Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/
The English word “consistency” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
Etymology
By surface analysis, consistent + -cy, consistence + -y or consist + -ency.
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