Coherence vs Stewpot - What's the difference?
coherence | stewpot |
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.
A pot used for making stew, usually large and heavy
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 4, author=Melissa Clark, title=Braised Rabbit, Easier on the Fat, work=New York Times
, passage=What my parents served me from that very same stewpot was chicken. }}
(arts, literature) A jumble, especially one that lacks intellectual coherence
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 6, author=Michiko Kakutani, title=Dispatch From Gomorrah, Savaging the Cultural Left, work=New York Times
, passage=It’s a nasty stewpot of intellectually untenable premises and irresponsible speculation that frequently reads like a “Saturday Night Live” parody of the crackpot right. }}
As nouns the difference between coherence and stewpot
is that coherence is coherence, consistence, consistency while stewpot is a pot used for making stew, usually large and heavy.coherence
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- ''His arguments lacked coherence .
Antonyms
* incoherenceReferences
* ----stewpot
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