coherence UK /kəʊˈhɪəɹ.ən(t)s/US /koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/ noun5 •The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.His arguments lacked coherence. •The quality of forming a unified whole. •A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing.In a lesson on coherence in academic writing, students engaged in the following discussion on the online platform TodaysMeet. — 2017 •A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text. •The property of having the same wavelength and phase. formscoherences