Akademik

cogency

noun

1. persuasive relevance

• Derivationally related forms: ↑cogent

• Hypernyms: ↑relevance, ↑relevancy

2. the quality of being valid and rigorous

• Syn: ↑validity, ↑rigor, ↑rigour

• Derivationally related forms: ↑rigorous (for: ↑rigor), ↑valid (for: ↑validity)

• Hypernyms: ↑credibility, ↑credibleness, ↑believability

Useful english dictionary. 2012.