Consistency vs Thickness - What's the difference?
consistency | thickness |
Local coherence.
Correspondence or compatibility.
Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
* Addison
The degree of viscosity of something.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (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
(uncountable) The property of being thick (in dimension).
(uncountable) A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
(countable) A layer.
(uncountable) The quality of being thick (in consistency).
(uncountable, informal) The property of being thick (slow to understand).
As nouns the difference between consistency and thickness
is that consistency is local coherence while thickness is the property of being thick (in dimension).consistency
English
(wikipedia consistency)Noun
(consistencies)- That consistency of behaviour whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just.
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- His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency .
Antonyms
* inconsistencythickness
English
Noun
- The thickness of the Earth's crust is varies from two to 70 kilometres.
- We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.
- Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness .