Compliance vs Coherence - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between compliance and coherence

is that compliance is an act of complying while coherence is coherence, consistence, consistency.

An act of complying.

(uncountable) The state of being compliant.

(uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.

A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility

(medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan

(uncountable, business) the department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with

*(act of complying) violation

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(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.

* incoherence

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