Coherence vs Conformity - What's the difference?
coherence | conformity |
Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.
a logical arrangement of parts
(physics, of waves) the property of having the same wavelength and phase.
(linguistics) Semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.
State of things being similar or identical.
A point of resemblance; a similarity.
State of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
As nouns the difference between coherence and conformity
is that coherence is quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency while conformity is state of things being similar or identical.coherence
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- ''His arguments lacked coherence .
Antonyms
* incoherenceReferences
* ----conformity
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Noun
- How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. -