consensus

Borrowed from Latin cōnsēnsus (“agreement, accordance, unanimity”), from cōnsentiō (“feel together; agree”); see consent.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsɛnsəs/

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consensus (countable and uncountable, plural consensuses or consensus)

1. A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
2. General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action.

   reach consensus

   After years of debate over the best wine to serve at Thanksgiving, no real consensus has emerged.

3. (computing) An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation.
4. (attributive) Average projected value.

   a financial consensus forecast

• dissensus

consensus (third-person singular simple present consensuses, present participle consensusing, simple past and past participle consensused)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To seek consensus; to hold discussions with the aim of reaching mutual agreement.
   • 1975, United States Bureau of the Census, The Census Bureau, page 168:

     I think we are a strongly consensused society. There was a consensus during the 1950's, the Eisenhower years, in our society. Then in the 1960's came a period of division.

   • 1992, United States House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Environment, The Science of Wetland Definition and Delineation: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Environment of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, November 12, 1991, page 185:

     None of this consensusing was done with the Manual. There were no national workshops, forums, etc.

• “consensus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “consensus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• "consensus" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 76.
• “consensus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “consensus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “consensus”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “consensus” (US) / “consensus” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “consensus”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• consensus in Britannica Dictionary
• consensus in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
• consensus in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary
• consensus in Ozdic collocation dictionary
• consensus in WordReference English Collocations

Borrowed from Latin cōnsēnsus or English consensus, itself borrowed from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔnˈsɛn.zʏs/

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• Hyphenation: con‧sen‧sus

consensus m (uncountable)

1. consensus

• overeenstemming

• → Papiamentu: kònsènsùs
• → Indonesian: konsènsus

Borrowed from Latin cōnsēnsus (“agreement, accordance, unanimity”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɛ̃.sys/, /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.sys/

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consensus m (plural consensus)

1. consensus

• “consensus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From cōnsentiō (“feel together; agree”), from con- (“together”) and sentiō (“sense; perceive; feel”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈsen.sus/, [kõːˈs̠ẽːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈsen.sus/, [konˈsɛnsus]

cōnsēnsus m (genitive cōnsēnsūs); fourth declension

1. Consensus, agreement, accordance, unanimity, concord, harmony.

   Synonyms: cōnsēnsiō, concordia, cōnspīrātiō, congruentia

   Antonyms: discordia, dissidentia, dissēnsiō

2. A plot, conspiracy.

   Synonyms: cōnsēnsiō, cōnspīrātiō, coniūrātiō

• (concord, agreement): concentus, concordātiō, concordia, concorditās, harmonia, ūnanimitās
• (plot, conspiracy): coitiō, coniūrātiō, cōnsēnsiō, cōnspīrātiō

cōnsēnsus (feminine cōnsēnsa, neuter cōnsēnsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (rare) agreed upon

• “consensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “consensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• consensus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• consensus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the perfect harmony of the universe: totius mundi convenientia et consensus
    
  • unanimously: uno, communi, summo or omnium consensu (Tusc. 1. 15. 35)
    
• “consensus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “consensus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin