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self-consistent

[ self-kuhn-sis-tuhnt, self- ]

noun

  1. consistent with oneself or itself.


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Other Words From

  • self-con·sisten·cy noun
  • self-con·sistent·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-consistent1

First recorded in 1675–85

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Example Sentences

Suppose further that this field is internally completely logical, completely coherent, completely self-consistent.

I have rarely seen a person more devoted to duty or more self-consistent in all that she says and does.

On the whole the chronology of Beowulf is self-consistent, but there are one or two discrepancies which do not admit of solution.

(C) That if He is so, and if His will is self-consistent, all natural causation must needs appear to us 'mechanical.'

No writer, from Plato downward, was ever perfectly self-consistent; it would be strange if Edwards were so.

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