单词 | self-consistency |
释义 | self-consistencyn. The fact or quality of being self-consistent; internal consistency. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > [noun] evenlinesseOE evennessa1398 equality1398 uniformity?a1475 equalness1545 uniformness1579 coherence1588 constancy1593 identity1611 oneness1611 holdinga1616 homogeneity1625 homogeny1626 unity1638 equiformity1646 self-consistencya1652 invariableness1654 homogeneousness1658 univocacy1658 sameness1743 consistency1787 self-similarity1847 consistence1850 flushnessa1878 homogenization1938 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > agreement between the parts of a whole self-consistencya1652 consistence1702 consistency1787 congruity1827 a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vii. vi. 336 A lively Faith in this Love of God..would make us melt and dissolve out of all Self-consistencie. 1669 J. Owen Truth & Innocence Vindicated 102 We shall find our Author himself setting up the Supremacy of Conscience in opposition unto..that of the Magistrate, (though with no great self-consistency). 1692 J. Norris Cursory Refl. Ess. Human Understanding 13 in Christian Blessedness (ed. 2) How then can he with any tolerable Self-consistency say [etc.]. 1739 J. Constable Deism & Christianity Consider'd 311 It every where appears this Gentleman has no miraculous Gift of Self-Consistency. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives I. 145 It was not..the principal design of Lycurgus, that his city should govern many others, but he considered it's happiness..as flowing from virtue and self-consistency. 1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 270 You deny the self-consistency of the Church of England and call it a compromise. 1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 40 Such facts do not..destroy..the self-consistency of the objects themselves. 1927 Science 30 Dec. 634/2 It serves to indicate the self-consistency of the set of measurements. 1980 D. Brin Sundiver x. xxxi. 337 A society with some unpalatable aspects but with, all the same, a self-consistency and its own form of honor. 2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 June mm32 What seems at first like narrowness, or mere repetition, is in fact intellectual self-consistency, dogged allegiance to the highest artistic ideals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1652 |
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