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Harmony vs Coherence - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between harmony and coherence

is that harmony is agreement or accord while coherence is quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.

As a proper noun Harmony

is {{given name|female|from=Latin}}.

harmony

Noun

(harmonies)
  • Agreement or accord.
  • * America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.'' — , '' Why It’s Time to Worry , Newsweek 2010-12-04
  • A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
  • (music) The academic study of chords.
  • (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
  • (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
  • A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.
  • a harmony of the Gospels

    coherence

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (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.
  • Antonyms

    * incoherence

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