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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1. Erik Pevernagie:

   When people are solely intersecting, we mainly hear monologues. But instead of soliloquizing we need dialoguing. Good social coherence requires a reciprocal willingness to create space for an open discussion. Plain talk and unbiased listening are the keystones for a healthy sovereign human living together. ("Why didn't he ask ? " )

2. Don DeLillo:

   If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.

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. Tim Blake Nelson:

   It is a movie about the unlikely but inevitable coherence of modern life and how it is more important than ever that we recognize how close we are to one another.

5. 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.