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

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

The main character is a snide demon with a vicious sense of humor, and the books lay out a mechanism for magic that is self-consistent and logical within its own world.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2014

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

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