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Consistency

noun

The property of holding together and retaining its shape. Synonyms: body, consistence, eubstance. "When the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"

A harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts. Synonym: consistence.

Logical coherence and accordance with the facts.

(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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"Consistency" Quotes from Famous Books

... faith in the consistency of public men was rudely shaken a few minutes later, when the messenger returned with orders that the lady was ...

— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell

... that yield camphire. This tree is so large, and its branches so thick, that one hundred men may easily sit under its shade. The juice, of which the camphire is made, exudes from a hole bored in the upper part of the tree, is received in a vessel, where it thickens to a consistency, and becomes what we call camphire; after the juice is thus drawn out, the tree ...

— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous

... gentleman, secure in the recollection of his own consistency, has taunted me with the errors of my boyhood. When he addressed the honorable member of Westminster, he showed his magnanimity by declaring that he would not take the philosopher to task for what he wrote twenty-five years ago; but when he caught one who, thirty-six years ago, just emerged ...

— The Grand Old Man • Richard B. Cook

... contained in the sac of the Purpurae is a liquid of a creamy consistency, and of a yellowish-white hue. On extraction, it is at first decidedly yellow; then after a little time it becomes green; and, finally, it settles into some shade of violet or purple. Chemical analysis has shown that in the case of the Murex trunculus ...

— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson

... comes to that it is (as I clearly perceive) absurd to be writing a book about Mr. Bernard Shaw at all. It is indefensibly foolish to attempt to explain a man whose whole object through life has been to explain himself. But even in nonsense there is a need for logic and consistency; therefore let us proceed on the assumption that when I say that all Mr. Shaw's blood and origin may be found in John Bull's Other Island, some reader may answer that he does not know the play. Besides, it is more important to put the reader ...

— George Bernard Shaw • Gilbert K. Chesterton

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