Noun

(consistencies)

Local coherence.

Correspondence or compatibility.

Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.

* Addison

That consistency of behaviour whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just.

The degree of viscosity of something.

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(logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.

(obsolete) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.

* South

His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency .

Noun

Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.

Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.

(uncountable, mathematics) A characteristic property of a continuous function.

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A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a story series are accounted for in present stories.

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