(logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another

Usage examples of consistency.

Furthermore, the rights which the present statutes confer are subject to the Anti-Trust Acts, though it can be hardly said that the cases in which the Court has endeavored to draw the line between the rights claimable by patentees and the kind of monopolistic privileges which are forbidden by those acts exhibit entire consistency in their holdings.

A particularly showy native flower of the Planet Texas, three inches in diameter when fully opened, the bloodflower exuded a liquid of the color and consistency of human blood when disturbed.

Milky-white food slurry exploded in all directions, showering the recovery team with thick white fluid that dried quickly to a chalklike consistency.

The precise location of the morbid conditions which give rise to the discharges, as well as to their extent, modifies the color, consistency, and ingredients of the stools.

If those who hold the common doctrine of a carnal resurrection should carry it out with philosophical consistency, by extending the scheme it involves to all existing planetary races as well as to their own, should they cause that process of imagination which produced this doctrine to go on to its legitimate completion, they would see in the final consummation the sundered earths approach each other, and firmaments conglobe, till at last the whole universe concentred in one orb.

Alex shot her another sex-drenched grin, and her blood heated and thickened to the consistency of Gristmill gravy.

They were, indeed, in many respects more Jeffersonian than Jefferson himself, and sought to realize some of his ideas with more energy and consistency.

It certainly could not have been the intention to place the rules and limits of maritime law under the disposal and regulation of the several States, as that would have defeated the uniformity and consistency at which the Constitution aimed on all subjects of a commercial character affecting the intercourse of the States with each other or with foreign states.

Rarely, however, has it been used so systematically, or with such contempt for even the appearance of consistency or intellectual honor, as by American nationalists, especially from the neoconservative camp.

Russian prisoner is nonregulation procedure, but Auschwitz regulations have no consistency or coherence.

We must keep in mind that the Child needs the security provided by relatedness, consistency, stroking, recognition, approval, and support.

It was a grayish-tan, semitranslucent liquid about the consistency of thin gravy.

All storms had a distinctive shape and obeyed their own internal rules of consistency, and lost their power once those internal rules were altered.

Normally, the geography of soul spaces has a smooth and open consistency to people in superconsciousness, without displaying the properties of gravity, temperature, pressure, matter, or a time clock associated with a chaotic physical universe.

Along with their pack frames of caribou antler, Torka, Manaravak, and Grek each wore undergarments, stockings, and mitten liners of the supplest skins of caribou calves, chewed to a consistency of velvet by the women and girls of the band.