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COGENCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being valid and rigorous
Synonyms:
cogency; rigor; rigour; validity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("cogency" is a kind of...):
believability; credibility; credibleness (the quality of being believable or trustworthy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Persuasive relevance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("cogency" is a kind of...):
relevance; relevancy (the relation of something to the matter at hand)
Derivation:
cogent (powerfully persuasive)
