Consistency vs Unity - What's the difference?
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Local coherence.
Correspondence or compatibility.
Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
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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.
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(uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
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A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 137:
(drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama (unity of action, unity of place, and unity of time).`
(mathematics) Any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.
(legal) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
As a noun consistency
is local coherence.As a proper noun unity is
.consistency
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(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
* inconsistencyunity
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(wikipedia unity)Noun
- If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression - for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed.
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- If a single day has brought us two or more experiences suitable to initiate a dream, the dream will unite references to them both into a single whole; it obeys a compulsion to form a unity out of them .
