<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or state of cohering; cohesion.</li><li>logical interconnection; overall sense or understandability.</li><li>congruity; consistency.</li><li>Synonyms:<ul><li>rationality</li><li>agreement</li><li>harmony</li><li>correspondence</li></ul></li><li>Physics, Optics: (of waves) the state of being coherent.</li><li>Linguistics: the property of unity in a written text or a segment of spoken discourse that stems from the links among its underlying ideas and from the logical organization and development of its thematic content.</li><li>Compare cohesion (def 4).</li></ul>