consistency
/kənˈsɪs.tən.si/ noun C1- Local coherence.
- Correspondence or compatibility.
- Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent. · They want to achieve a high degree of consistency in their process and their product.
- The degree of viscosity of something. · Mix it until it has the consistency of a thick paste.
- Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
Plural consistencies
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It was rather small, but well built and convenient; and everything was fitted up and arranged with a neatness and consistency, of which Elizabeth gave Charlotte all the credit.
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