different between coherence vs cohesive

English

Alternative forms

• cohærence (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia.

Morphologically cohere +? -ence.

Noun

coherence (countable and uncountable, plural coherences)

1. The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.

   His arguments lacked coherence.

2. A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing.
3. (physics, of waves) The property of having the same wavelength and phase.
4. (linguistics, translation studies) A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.

Antonyms

• incoherence

Related terms

• cohesion

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “coherence”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Middle French

Noun

coherence f (uncountable)

1. coherence; quality of being internally consistent

Descendants

• English: coherence
• French: cohérence

English

Etymology

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Compare French cohésif.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.hi?.s?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko??hi?.s?v/

Adjective

cohesive (comparative more cohesive, superlative most cohesive)

1. Having cohesion.

Derived terms

• cohesively

Related terms

Translations

Noun

cohesive (plural cohesives)

1. A substance that provides cohesion

   • The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.

   • Direct comparison meta-analysis showed that viscoadaptives lead to a lower loss in cell density compared with very low viscosity dispersives, and compared with super viscous cohesives.

2. (linguistics) A device used to establish cohesion within a text

   • The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.

Anagrams

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