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Cogent vs Striking - What's the difference?

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Cogent is a related term of striking.


As adjectives the difference between cogent and striking

is that cogent is reasonable and convincing; based on evidence while striking is making a strong impression.

As a verb striking is

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As a noun striking is

the act by which something strikes or is struck.

cogent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
  • Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.
  • Forcefully persuasive.
    • She presented a cogent argument, convincing her audience of the truth of her proposition.

    Derived terms

    * cogency

    striking

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Making a strong impression.
  • :
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  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking . In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something strikes or is struck.
  • * 2012 , Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
    • We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?

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