COGENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cogency mean? 

• COGENCY (noun)
  The noun COGENCY has 2 senses:

1. persuasive relevance

2. the quality of being valid and rigorous

  Familiarity information: COGENCY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COGENCY (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being valid and rigorous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cogency; rigor; rigour; validity

Hypernyms ("cogency" is a kind of...):

believability; credibility; credibleness (the quality of being believable or trustworthy)