Skip to content
HOW TO PRONOUNCE

consistency

/kənˈsɪstənsi/

Press play to hear how to pronounce consistency.

American Pronunciation Guide · 1:03
Watch on YouTube ↗

What does consistency mean?

noun

  1. Local coherence.
  2. Correspondence or compatibility.
  3. Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
More meanings (3)

noun

  1. The degree of viscosity of something.
  2. Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
  3. (obsolete) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.

Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0

IPA pronunciation

/kənˈsɪstənsi/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.

In the pages of books

See this word in context.

She paused again, and Celia thought that her sister was going to renounce the ornaments, as in consistency she ought to do.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
Its task shall be to organize, in a manner demonstrating consistency and solidarity, relations between the Member States and between their peoples.
European UnionThe Treaty of the European Union, Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992Project Gutenberg ebook #686
More book examples (2)
It had not that sort of consistency to Plato which has been given to it in modern times by geometry and metaphysics.
PlatoTimaeusTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1572
Breakfast on the 9th was of about the same consistency as dinner on the night before, except that cocoa replaced the alcohol.
Douglas, Sir MawsonThe Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914Project Gutenberg ebook #6137