consistency

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 10.73 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Local coherence.
2. noun Correspondence or compatibility.
3. noun Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.

   They want to achieve a high degree of consistency in their process and their product.

4. noun The degree of viscosity of something.

   Mix it until it has the consistency of a thick paste.

5. noun Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
6. noun Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.

Similar words

consistence body congruency coherence congruence congruity coherency cohesive cohesiveness unanimous

Often followed by

of in and with is between to or that

Word family

consist consisted consistencies consistent consistently consisting consists