Definition of consistency

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Consistency (n.) The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity..

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Incoherency :: Incoherency (n.) Want of connection; incongruity; inconsistency; want of agreement or dependence of one part on another; as, the incoherence of arguments, facts, etc..
Discordancy :: Discordancy (n.) State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.
Body :: Body (n.) Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body..
Inconsistency :: Inconsistency (n.) The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility.
Glacial :: Glacial (a.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids..
Candy :: Candy (v. t.) A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc..
Inconsistent :: Inconsistent (a.) Not consistent; showing inconsistency; irreconcilable; discordant; at variance, esp. as regards character, sentiment, or action; incompatible; incongruous; contradictory..
Viscous :: Viscous (a.) Adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious; as, a viscous juice..
Concent :: Concent (n.) Consistency; accordance.
Mayonnaise :: Mayonnaise (n.) A sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency of a sirup, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce..
Inconsistentness :: Inconsistentness (n.) Inconsistency.
Plaster :: Plaster (n.) An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster..
Agreeableness :: Agreeableness (n.) The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency.
Cosmoline :: Cosmoline (n.) A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly..
Pudding :: Pudding (n.) Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding..
Harmony :: Harmony (n.) A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels..
Graduate :: Graduate (n.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid..
Discomposition :: Discomposition (n.) Inconsistency; discordance.
Congruity :: Congruity (n.) The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.
Reconciliation :: Reconciliation (n.) Reduction to congruence or consistency; removal of inconsistency; harmony.
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