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Consistent vs Constance - What's the difference?

consistent | constance |

As nouns the difference between consistent and constance

is that consistent is (in the plural|rare) objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another while constance is constancy.

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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
  • (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) ----

    constance

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1951' translation by Nevill Coghill of: '''1380s - 1390s Geoffrey Chaucer: ''Canterbury Tales: The Man of the Law's Tale :
  • And forth she sailed the ocean salt and rude. / O Constance , full of sweet solicitude, / O Emperor's daughter of a mighty realm, / He that is Lord of Fortune guide thy helm!
  • * , Scene IV:
  • My name is Constance ; I was Geffrey's wife; / Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost: / I am not mad:—I would to heaven I were!