sense of coherence

collocation in English

meaningsofsenseandcoherence

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/
us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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coherence
noun[U]
uk
/kəʊˈhɪə.rəns/
us
/koʊˈhɪr.əns/
the situation when the parts of something fit together in a natural or ...
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(Definition ofsenseandcoherencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsense of coherence

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These are all cognitive-based features in that they alter a person's view of his or her experience and enables restoration of asenseofcoherence.
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What will give us asenseofcoherenceand allow us to integrate the facts of variation as we have just described them?
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On the other hand, they must also deal with their ownsenseofcoherence.
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Spiritual thoughts, coping and 'senseofcoherence' in brain tumour patients and their spouses.
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Spiritual thoughts, coping, and "senseofcoherence" in brain tumor patients and their spouses.
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The role of meaning in advanced cancer-integrating the constructs of assumptive world,senseofcoherenceand meaningbased coping.
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Reestablishing asenseofcoherencein this population is indeed a worthy goal of therapy.
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By 'syntagm' we mean a generally sequential combination of sound events which have unity, autonomy and asenseofcoherence.
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That introductory claim may be too grandiose for any book to realistically fulfil, but there is ultimately a surprisingsenseofcoherencein this thought-provoking study.
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Symptom severity accounted for some variance in outcome appraisal for individuals in this study, but perceived consequences, controllability and asenseofcoherencewere also very important.
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I think that we are moving inexorably to a greatersenseofcoherence.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Without thatsenseofcoherenceand identity a regional assembly cannot be made to work.
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It is possible to move efficiently and quickly to longer-term contracts that give everyone a sense of security and the institution asenseofcoherence.
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If we are to avoid all that, we have to find other ways of developing asenseofcoherenceand cohesion in the systems of taxation of corporate earnings.
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In each case, he attempts to show how the lines augment the fine proportions and add a rationalsenseofcoherenceto the buildings.
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Its major participants deeply mistrusted each other, and they never achieved asenseofcoherence.
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His essential argument is that salutogenesis depends on experiencing a strongsenseofcoherence.
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Because chronic self-concepts and self-esteem play an important role in understanding the world, providing asenseofcoherence, and guiding action, people become motivated to maintain them through self-verification.
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