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

The view is disorienting because we tend to think of immigration agendas as singular and self-consistent.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2021

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

Here was what Bell had been groping for, on and off since his student days: some quantitative means of distinguishing Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics from other coherent, self-consistent possibilities.

From Scientific American • Jan. 30, 2012

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

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.