consist in

present singular third person consists in · participle present consisting in · participle past consisted in · past consisted in

1. To have the thing mentioned as the only or most important part.

   Tolerance consists in respecting other people’s opinions.

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   When you read their writings, life appears to consist in a warm sun and a garden of roses, — in the smiles and frowns of a fair enemy, and the fire that consumes your own heart.

   1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

   It is that contact between the mind and things does not consist, at any level, in perceptions of simple data or in associations of such unities, but always consists in apprehensions of more or less “structured” complexes.

   1953, Jean Piaget, Origin of Intelligence in the Child, published 2013