consistency

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Noun

consistency (plural consistencies)

1. local coherence
2. correspondence or compatibility
3. reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent

   They want to achieve a high degree of consistency in their process and their product.

   • Addison

     That consistency of behaviour whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just.

4. the degree of viscosity of something

   Mix it until it has the consistency of a thick paste.

5. (logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory
6. (obsolete) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
   • South

     His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency.

Antonyms

• inconsistency

Related terms

• consist
• consistence
• consistent

Translations

reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent

• Bulgarian: постоянство (bg) (postojanstvo) n, устойчивост (bg) (ustojčivost) f
• Catalan: consistència (ca) f
• Greek: συνέπεια (el) (synépeia) f
• Irish: comhsheasmhacht (ga) f
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سازگاری (ku) (sazgarí), ڕێکی (ku) (rékí)

• Norwegian: konsistens (no)
• Portuguese: consistência (pt) f
• Spanish: consistencia (es) f

degree of viscosity of something

• Bulgarian: консистенция (bg) (konsistencija) f
• Catalan: consistència (ca) f
• Danish: konsistens (da) c
• French: consistance (fr) f
• German: Konsistenz (de) f
• Irish: comhsheasmhacht (ga) f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konsistens (no) m

  Nynorsk: konsistens (nn) m

• Polish: konsystencja (pl) f
• Russian: консистенция (ru) (konsistencija) f
• Swedish: konsistens (sv) c

logic: state of a system of axioms

• Catalan: consistència (ca) f
• Dutch: samenhang (nl) m

• German: Widerspruchsfreiheit (de) f, Konsistenz (de) f
• Norwegian: konsistens (no)