Quantitative Wehrl stability is known at each fixed number of bosonic modes; the multimode results reviewed here allow dimension dependence. We prove a full-state stability theorem with one constant that works simultaneously for every finite mode count. For every m-mode bosonic density operator ρ with finite mean total photon number, infαᵐ\|ρ-|αα|\|₁²≤120\,[W(ρ)-m]. The same numerical constant works simultaneously for every finite m, independently of the total energy, rank, and occupation support. Thus a vanishing total Wehrl entropy deficit forces convergence of the entire quantum state to a coherent state even when the number of modes varies; by contrast, a vanishing deficit per mode is not sufficient, as shown by an explicit fixed-energy thermal family. The resulting coherent reference is a genuine full-state approximation: the same trace-norm error propagates through every subsequent quantum channel and controls every measurement probability. The proof first converts Wehrl deficit into quantum impurity through a dimension-free directional entropy estimate for a field of rank-one projections, 1-Trρ²≤4/log2\,[W(ρ)-m]. A beam-splitter Wehrl-entropy chain rule then links this purity estimate to the known two-copy coherent-state test, yielding the full mixed-state result. As a further consequence, the same bound controls the Rényi entropy of order two generated when a pure noncoherent input is split with vacuum. The theorem therefore turns total Wehrl entropy into a mode-independent error budget for coherent-state replacement in multimode bosonic quantum systems.
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