Noun
- 1. consistency, consistence, eubstance, body, property
- usage: the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"
- 2. consistency, consistence, uniformity, uniformness
- usage: a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
- 3. consistency, coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness
- usage: logical coherence and accordance with the facts; "a rambling argument that lacked any consistency"
- 4. consistency, logicality, logicalness
- usage: (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another
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