self-consistent

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

noun

1. consistent with oneself or itself.

Other Words From

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-consistent¹

First recorded in 1675–85

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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