consistency

1. 1.

   the property of holding together and retaining its shape

   “wool has more body than rayon”

   “when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake”

   Synonymsconsistencesubstancebody

   Broaderproperty

   Narrowergaseousnessviscositythicknessthinnesshardnesssoftnessbreakablenessunbreakablenessporositysolidity
2. 2.

   a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts

   Synonymsconsistence

   Antonymsinconsistency

   Broaderuniformity
3. 3.

   logical coherence and accordance with the facts

   “a rambling argument that lacked any consistency”

   Broadercoherence
4. 4.

   (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another

   Broaderlogicality

   logic

Other forms of consistency

plural

consistencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about consistency

What does consistency mean?

consistency means "the property of holding together and retaining its shape". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in consistency?

consistency has 4 syllables: con-sis-ten-cy. The stress falls on "sis". In IPA it is /kənˈsɪstənsi/.

What is another word for consistency?

Close synonyms include consistence, substance, body, consistence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of consistency?

The recorded antonyms are inconsistency.

Is consistency a common word?

consistency is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with consistency?

1 word rhymes with consistency. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.