Meaning

Logical consistency; lack of self-contradiction..

Definitions by Sense

1. Logical consistency; lack of self-contradiction.
2. The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things.
3. (archaic) The physical quality which is given by the degree of density, firmness, solidity, and viscosity; consistency.
4. (obsolete) The condition of adhering or standing together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; coherence, existence, firmness, solidity.
5. (obsolete) That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
6. (obsolete) Standing still; quiescence, state of rest.
7. (obsolete except poetic) A substance which adheres together.

Example Sentences

Her performance has lacked consistence over the last year.

This composer’s musical work is of extraordinary consistence.

If they [expressed juices] be boiled into the Consistence of a Syrup.

It is generally about the size of a melon, a little fibrous towards the centre, but everywhere else quite smooth and puddingy, something in consistence between yeast-dumplings and batter-pudding.

All these things, and many others too numerous to mention, were well mixed together in the famous pot and boiled for four hours, until the consistence of a mess, or poss, was obtained, […]

Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence.

VVe are as vvater, vveak, and of no conſiſtence, alvvayes deſcending, abiding in no certain place, unleſeſ vvhere vvee are detained vvith violence: […]

When it was brought to the school it discharged from its right nostril, a whitish, viscid, clotty matter, which, although of little consistence, strongly adhered to the sides of the nostril.

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• consistences

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