Consistent vs Consistence - What's the difference?

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Consistence is a related term of consistent.

As nouns the difference between consistent and consistence

is that consistent is objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another while consistence is the physical quality which is given by the degree of firmness, solidity, density, and viscosity; consistency.

As an adjective consistent

is of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.

consistent

English

(consistency)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.

The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.

He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!

Compatible, accordant.

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(logic) Of a set of statements, such that no contradiction logically follows from them.

Antonyms

* inconsistent * contradictory

Noun

(en noun)

(in the plural, rare) Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.

* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

The Diurnal motion of the primum mobile, is it not from East to West? And the annual motion of the Sun through the Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from West to East? How then can you make these motions being conferred on the Earth ... to become consistents ?

In the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church, a kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but could not be admitted to receive the holy sacrament.

* 1885 Catholic Dictionary 651

The consistentes stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the catechumens.

References

* * Catholic Dictionary (1885) * Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia - Supplement (1753) ----

consistence

English

Noun

(archaic) The physical quality which is given by the degree of firmness, solidity, density, and viscosity; consistency.

* Arbuthnot

Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup.

The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things.

Her performance has lacked consistence over the last year.

This composer's musical work is of extraordinary consistence .

(obsolete) Standing still; quiescence; state of rest.

(obsolete) The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.

* Francis Bacon

Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence .

* Jeremy Taylor

We are as water, weak, and of no consistence .

(obsolete) That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.

* Milton

The church of God, as meaning whole consistence of orders and members.