'Coherency' definitions:
Definition of 'coherency'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of cohering or sticking together [syn: coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness] [ant: incoherence, incoherency]
noun
Logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts [syn: coherence, coherency]
Definition of 'Coherency'
From: GCIDE
- Coherence \Co*her"ence\, Coherency \Co*her"en*cy\, n. [L. cohaerentia: cf. F. coh['e]rence.]
- 1. A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; a logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts; consecutiveness. [1913 Webster]
- Coherence of discourse, and a direct tendency of all the parts of it to the argument in hand, are most eminently to be found in him. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. the state of cohering.
- Syn: cohesion, cohesiveness. [WordNet 1.5]