[ US /koʊˈhɪɹəns/ ]
[ UK /kə‍ʊhˈi‍əɹəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of cohering or sticking together
  2. logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts
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How To Use coherence In A Sentence

  • Interconnectedness among its components, together with its comprehensiveness, determine a system's degree of coherence.
  • Materialization of both wish and phantasy is monstrous to Victor, because his egoic coherence depends on denying the death-drive that he sublimes as life — especially the life of science, invention, and creativity. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
  • We focus on linguistic signals of discourse coherence, such as connectives (because, although) and referential expressions (anaphors, cataphors).
  • When I first heard these pieces, they reminded me of the Bach 48 preludes and fugues in form and coherence, if not in content and style
  • The book does not attempt to find coherence beyond each narrator's individual account, which is precisely what makes it so affecting. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The chapter on the quantum brain, for example, overinterprets the concept of decoherence, misapplies the word "acausal" and misses out entanglement altogether. Physicsworld.com: all content
  • His intellectual incoherence should not blind us to the populist possibilities he has stumbled upon.
  • Decoherence seems to yield a (maybe partial) solution to the problem, in that it naturally identifies a class of ˜preferred™ states (not necessarily an orthonormal basis!), and even allows to reidentify them over time, so that one can identify ...anything but love...
  • Beth's incoherence told Amy that something was terribly wrong.
  • In the famous attack by al-Ghazali (d. 1111) in his Incoherence of the Philosophers, thinkers such as Avicenna were condemned for heresy for their failure to demonstrate the supposed Qur™anic account of physical resurrection and the reality of the afterlife. Mulla Sadra
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