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consistency
 
Noun consistency has 4 senses
  1. consistency, consistence, body - the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"
    --1 is a kind of property
    --1 has particulars:
     gaseousness; viscosity, viscousness; thickness; thinness; hardness; softness; breakableness; unbreakableness; porosity, porousness; solidity, solidness
  2. consistency, consistence - a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
    --2 is a kind of uniformity, uniformness
    Antonyms: inconsistency
    Derived form: verb consist3
  3. consistency - logical coherence and accordance with the facts; "a rambling argument that lacked any consistency"
    --3 is a kind of     coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness
  4. consistency - (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another
    --4 is a kind of     logicality, logicalness
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