consistency
Meaning of consistency
- consistent behaviour or treatment.
the consistency of measurement techniques
- the way in which a substance holds together; thickness or viscosity.
the sauce has the consistency of creamed butter
late 16th century (denoting permanence of form): from late Latin consistentia, from consistent- ‘standing firm’ (see consistent).
Information about consistency
- It is a name.
- The plural form of consistency is: consistencies.
- Languages in which consistency is used:
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Hyphenation of consistency
con-sis-tency
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- consistency is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
consistency synonyms
Meaning consistence:
Meaning the quality not shaking or moving:
Meaning the state of being stable:
Meaning the quality of being enduring and unchanging:
Meaning the state or quality of being regular:
Meaning the quality or state of being uniform:
Meaning a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced:
Meaning the state of being united or joined as a whole:
Meaning the quality of being trustworthy and reliable:
Meaning the quality of being trustworthy or of performing consistently well:
Meaning the distance through an object, as distinct from width or height:
Meaning the degree of compactness of a substance:
Meaning the quality of having a solid, almost unyielding surface or structure:
Meaning the quality or state of being firm or strong in structure:
Meaning the state of being thick, sticky, and semi-fluid in consistency, due to internal friction:
Meaning the action or fact of forming a united whole:
Meaning the quality of having great weight:
Meaning the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or substance:
consistency antonyms
Meaning the fact or state of being inconsistent:
Translation of consistency
- French: consistance, cohérence
- Spanish: consistencia
- Portuguese: consistência
- Italian: consistenza
Words that rhyme with consistency
absorbency, accumbency, concumbency, decumbency, incumbency, lambency, nonabsorbency, recumbency, succumbency, superincumbency, acescency, acquiescency, adjacency, adolescency, alkalescency, ascescency, beneficency, circumjacency, coadjacency, coalescency, complacency, connascency, consenescency, convalescency, decency, defervescency, delitescency, displacency, displicency, effervescency, efflorescency, erubescency, evanescency, excandescency, excrescency, hyperlucency, incalescency, incandescency, indecency, innocency, interjacency, intumescency, iridescency, lactescency, liquescency, lucency, munificency, nascency, nonadjacency, noncomplacency