self-consistent

American  

[self-kuhn-sis-tuhnt, self-] / ˈsɛlf kənˈsɪs tənt, ˌsɛlf- /

noun

1. consistent with oneself or itself.

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Other Word Forms

• self-consistency noun
• self-consistently adverb

Etymology

Origin of self-consistent

First recorded in 1675–85

Example Sentences

With this definition, both laws of thermodynamics remain valid, showing that the framework is self-consistent.

From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025

“A moon is the simplest, most elegant and self-consistent hypothesis—that’s why we favor it.”

From Scientific American • Oct. 3, 2018

But there may be no problem about going back to save a girl from being murdered, and having that girl become your mother, because it forms a self-consistent narrative.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2017

It is something like exploring a self-consistent field of mathematics, with its axioms and rules of logic that are not consistent with nature.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

But these are not essential for the main purpose, which is to show that the evolutionary explanation is the only one that is reasonable and self-consistent.

From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Crampton, Henry Edward