Cohere vs Inhere - What's the difference?
cohere | inhere | Related terms |
To stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose.
To be consistent as part of a group.
to be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
*2001 , (Will Self), Feeding Frenzy :
*:We had already been claimed by the split infinitives of Star Trek , were already preparing to boldly go into a world where ethics, so far from inhering in the very structure of the cosmos, was a matter of personal taste [...].
*2009 , John Kraemer & Larry Gostin, The Guardian , 5 Jan 2009:
*:Sovereignty should inhere in the people and not the government, so governments forfeit sovereignty when they commit crimes against humanity.
Inhere is a related term of cohere.
As verbs the difference between cohere and inhere
is that cohere is to stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose while inhere is to be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something.cohere
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*Verb
- Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force .
- Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.
