Need another word that means the same as “consensus”? Find 19 synonyms and 30 related words for “consensus” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Consensus” are: agreement, harmony, concord, concurrence, consent, common consent, accord, unison, unity, unanimity, oneness, solidarity, concert, general opinion, general view, majority opinion, majority view, common opinion, common view
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “consensus” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| accord | Sympathetic compatibility. A peace accord. |
| agreement | Harmony of people’s opinions or actions or characters. A trade agreement. |
| common consent | A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area. |
| common opinion | A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area. |
| common view | A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area. |
| concert | Agreement or harmony. The concert version of the fourth interlude from the opera. |
| concord | A treaty. A pact of peace and concord. |
| concurrence | Agreement or consistency. The number of possible concurrences in the diagram. |
| consent | Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something. He indicated his consent. |
| general opinion | A fact about the whole (as opposed to particular. |
| general view | A fact about the whole (as opposed to particular. |
| harmony | The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce a pleasing effect. Man and machine in perfect harmony. |
| majority opinion | The age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs. |
| majority view | The property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part. |
| oneness | The quality of being united into one. The oneness of all suffering people. |
| solidarity | Unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest; mutual support within a group. Factory workers voiced solidarity with the striking students. |
| unanimity | Everyone being of one mind. There is almost complete unanimity on this issue. |
| unison | Corresponding exactly. Good unisons are formed by flutes oboes and clarinets. |
| unity | Each of the three dramatic principles requiring limitation of the supposed time of a drama to that occupied in acting it or to a single day unity of time use of one scene throughout unity of place and concentration on the development of a single plot unity of action. He took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia. |
| accede | Take on duties or office. By now John had died and Henry III had acceded. |
| accord | Agreement or harmony. Opposition groups refused to sign the accord. |
| admittedly | Used to express a concession or recognition that something is the case. Admittedly the salary was not wonderful. |
| agree | Show grammatical agreement. The two stories don t agree in many details. |
| agreed | United by being of the same opinion. Agreed in their distrust of authority. |
| agreement | Compatibility of observations. A trade agreement. |
| approbation | Official recognition or approval. A term of approbation. |
| approval | A feeling of liking something or someone good. His decision merited the approval of any sensible person. |
| approve | Believe that someone or something is good or acceptable. They would not approve. |
| assent | To agree or express agreement. He nodded assent. |
| coincide | Be in agreement. Publication is timed to coincide with a major exhibition. |
| compromise | Make a compromise arrive at a compromise. He won t accept any decisions which compromise his principles. |
| concord | Arrange the words of a text so as to create a concordance. Their ideas concorded. |
| concur | Happen or occur at the same time; coincide. The authors concurred with the majority. |
| concurrence | A point at which three or more lines meet. The incidental concurrence of two separate tumours. |
| conform | Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions. The countryside should conform to a certain idea of the picturesque. |
| consent | Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something. He had consented to serve as external assessor on the panel. |
| correspond | Be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics. The doctor and I corresponded for more than two decades. |
| ok | An expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence. Things are okay. |
| permission | An official document giving authorization. He received permission to go to Brussels. |
| ratification | The action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid. The ratification of the treaty. |
| ratify | Sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid. Both countries were due to ratify the treaty by the end of the year. |
| resolution | Computer science the number of pixels per square inch on a computer generated display the greater the resolution the better the picture. The peaceful resolution of all disputes. |
| sanction | Give sanction to. The scheme was sanctioned by the court. |
| settlement | The property given under a settlement. The settlement of the boundary disputes. |
| treaty | A written agreement between two states or sovereigns. The two Presidents signed a ten year treaty of solidarity. |
| unanimity | Everyone being of one mind. There is almost complete unanimity on this issue. |
| unanimous | (of two or more people) fully in agreement. The doctors were unanimous in their diagnoses. |
| unanimously | Without opposition; with the agreement of all people involved. We voted unanimously. |
| yes | An affirmative answer or decision, especially in voting. I was hoping for a yes. |
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