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Coherence vs Comprehensiveness - What's the difference?

coherence | comprehensiveness |

As nouns the difference between coherence and comprehensiveness

is that coherence is coherence, consistence, consistency while comprehensiveness is the state of being comprehensive.

coherence

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.
  • a logical arrangement of parts
  • ''His arguments lacked coherence .
  • (physics, of waves) the property of having the same wavelength and phase.
  • (linguistics) Semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.
  • Antonyms

    * incoherence

    References

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    comprehensiveness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being comprehensive.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 312:
  • *:It was this comprehensiveness which made the art so compelling.
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  • The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.