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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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.