# consistency

Pronunciation: say "kuhn-SIS-tuhn-see" /kənˈsɪstənsi/

## Noun

1. Reliability or uniformity; the quality of behaving or performing the same way over time.
   - Simple: The quality of always doing things the same way, so others can trust the result.
   - _Investors valued the company for the consistency of its quarterly earnings._
   - _A good referee brings consistency to every call, regardless of which team benefits._
2. The degree of thickness or fluidity of a substance, indicating how readily it flows.
   - Simple: How thick or thin a liquid or mixture is.
   - _The paint needs the consistency of heavy cream before you apply it._
   - _Adjust the consistency of the dough by adding flour a little at a time._
3. Correspondence or compatibility between things, so that they agree rather than contradict each other.
   - Simple: The way two things agree with each other and do not clash.
   - _Auditors look for consistency between a company's reported figures and its actual records._
   - _The theory's consistency with experimental data made it widely accepted._
4. Freedom from contradiction; the property of a set of axioms from which no mutually contradictory propositions can be derived.
   - Simple: When a group of rules or ideas all fit together without any of them clashing.
   - _Gödel showed that a sufficiently powerful system cannot prove its own consistency._
   - _The proof established the consistency of the axioms underlying the theory._
5. Coherence among the immediate or neighboring parts of something, so that nearby elements hold together.
   - Simple: When the parts of something close together fit and make sense as a whole.
   - _Editors check the consistency of adjacent paragraphs so the argument flows._
   - _The patchwork essay had no consistency from one section to the next._

## Noun

6. Firmness of make-up or character; solidity, durability, and the ability to last. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Firmness or solidity in how something is built or how it holds up.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/consistency (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).