coherence
/koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.09 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "His arguments lacked coherence."
- "Mrs. Grose listened with dumb emotion; she forbore to ask me what this meaning might be; so that, presently, to put the thing with some coherence and with the mere aid of her presence to my own mind, I went on: “That he’s an injury to the others.”"
- "He would then put down his pencil and stare in front of him, and wonder in what respects the world was different—it had, perhaps, more solidity, more coherence, more importance, greater depth."
- "When I come to his connection with Blanche Stroeve I am exasperated by the fragmentariness of the facts at my disposal. To give my story coherence I should describe the progress of their tragic union, but I know nothing of the three months during which they lived together."
- "In a lesson on coherence in academic writing, students engaged in the following discussion on the online platform TodaysMeet."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Latin cohaerēns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin cohaerentiader. Middle French coherenceder. English coherence From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia. By surface analysis, cohere + -ence.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: coherence, cohaerentia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/
- British English: /kəʊˈhɪəɹ.ən(t)s/