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consistency
1. n. local coherence
2. n. correspondence or compatibility
3. n. reliability or uniformity, the quality of being consistent
4. n. the degree of viscosity of something
5. n. (logic) Freedom from contradiction, the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory

Example Sentences

You can't fault her for consistency.  Each squirming song abandons any notion of consistency as jagged guitars slice through the wailing rhythms.

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