Synonyms for coherence
koʊˈhɪər əns, -ˈhɛr-co·her·ence

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1. coherencenoun

   Antonyms:
   incoherence

2. coherencenoun

   Antonyms:
   incoherence

3. coherencenoun

   His arguments lacked coherence.

   Antonyms:
   incoherence

4. coherencenoun

   Antonyms:
   incoherence

5. coherencenoun

   Antonyms:
   incoherence

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesivenessnoun

   the state of cohering or sticking together

   Synonyms:
   gluiness, coherency, viscidness, tackiness, cohesion, ropiness, viscidity, cohesiveness, glueyness, gumminess

   Antonyms:
   incoherence, incoherency

2. coherence, coherencynoun

   logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts

   Synonyms:
   cohesiveness, cohesion, coherency

   Antonyms:
   incoherence, incoherency

Matched Categories

1. • Comprehensibility
   • Connectedness

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. coherencenoun

   Synonyms:
   cohesion, union, connection, dependence

2. coherencenoun

   Synonyms:
   consistency, congruity, correspondence, harmony, agreement

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1. List of paraphrases for "coherence":

   consistency, cohesion, coherency, coherent, consistent, cohesiveness, uniformity, compatibility, interdependence, unity

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How to use coherence in a sentence?

1. Matteo Salvini:

   Spanish NGO, Spanish ship, Spanish port: The coherence and strength of Italy has paid off. We are no longer the refugee camp of Europe.

2. Nicholas Dungan:

   There is some potential for some form of leadership or some form of policy coherence going forward, the trouble is that policy coherence may be something very new from David Cameron. We haven't had much or it in the last five years -- there is a big question about his political maturity.

3. The FARC:

   Common sense indicates that there is no coherence between the words that exalt the ceasefire and those that order to intensify the war.

4. Luis Buñuel:

   You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

5. Octavio Paz:

   Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.