consensus

English

Etymology

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

Noun

consensus (countable and uncountable, plural consensuses)

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.
   • Despite years of debate over the best wine to serve at Thanksgiving, no real consensus has emerged.
3. (attributive) Average projected value.

   a financial consensus forecast

Antonyms

• dissensus

Translations

general agreement

• Arabic: إِجْمَاع (ar) m (ʔijmāʕ), تَوَافُق m (tawāfuq)
• Bulgarian: съгла́сие (bg) n (sǎglásie), единоду́шие (bg) n (edinodúšie), консе́нсус m (konsénsus)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 共識／共识 (zh) (gòngshí), 共识 (zh) (gòngshí)

• Czech: shoda (cs) f, souhlas (cs) m, konsenzus (cs) m
• Danish: konsensus (da)
• Dutch: consensus (nl) m, eensgezindheid (nl), overeenstemming (nl)
• Esperanto: interkonsento
• Finnish: yksimielisyys (fi), konsensus (fi)
• French: consensus (fr) m
• German: Konsens (de) m, Einvernehmen (de) n, Einigkeit (de) f, Übereinstimmung (de) f
• Greek: ομοφωνία (el) f (omofonía), κοινή συναίνεση f (koiní synaínesi)
• Hindi: संप्रतिपत्ति (hi) f (sampratipatti)
• Hungarian: egyezség (hu)
• Indonesian: konsensus (id)
• Italian: consenso (it) m
• Japanese: 総意 (ja) (そうい, sōi), 協心 (きょうしん, kyōshin), コンセンサス (konsensasu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 합의 (ko) (hapui) (合意 (ko))
• Latin: consensus m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konsensus (no) m

  Nynorsk: konsensus m

• Persian: اجماع (fa) m (ejmâ')
• Polish: konsensus (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: consenso (pt) m
• Russian: консе́нсус (ru) m (konsɛ́nsus), согла́сие (ru) n (soglásije), единоду́шие (ru) n (jedinodúšije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: консѐнзус m, спо̏разӯм m

  Roman: konsènzus (sh) m, spȍrazūm (sh) m

• Slovene: dogovor
• Spanish: consenso (es) m
• Swedish: konsensus (sv)
• Turkish: oy birliği (tr)
• Vietnamese: đồng lòng

Further reading

• “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.

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Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: con‧sen‧sus

Noun

consensus m (uncountable)

1. consensus

Synonyms

• overeenstemming

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɛ̃.sys/

• Audio

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Noun

consensus m (plural consensus)

1. consensus

Further reading

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

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cōnsēnsus m (genitive cōnsēnsūs); fourth declension

1. Consensus, agreement, accordance, unanimity, concord.
2. A plot, conspiracy.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnsēnsus	cōnsēnsūs
Genitive	cōnsēnsūs	cōnsēnsuum
Dative	cōnsēnsuī	cōnsēnsibus
Accusative	cōnsēnsum	cōnsēnsūs
Ablative	cōnsēnsū	cōnsēnsibus
Vocative	cōnsēnsus	cōnsēnsūs

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• cōnsēnsiō
• cōnsentāneē
• cōnsentāneus

• cōnsentiēns
• cōnsentiō

Descendants

• → English: consensus
• → French: consensus
• → Italian: consenso

• → Portuguese: consenso
• → Romanian: consens
• → Spanish: consenso

Adjective

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

1. (rare) agreed upon

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cōnsēnsus	cōnsēnsa	cōnsēnsum		cōnsēnsī	cōnsēnsae	cōnsēnsa
Genitive	cōnsēnsī	cōnsēnsae	cōnsēnsī		cōnsēnsōrum	cōnsēnsārum	cōnsēnsōrum
Dative	cōnsēnsō		cōnsēnsō		cōnsēnsīs
Accusative	cōnsēnsum	cōnsēnsam	cōnsēnsum		cōnsēnsōs	cōnsēnsās	cōnsēnsa
Ablative	cōnsēnsō	cōnsēnsā	cōnsēnsō		cōnsēnsīs
Vocative	cōnsēnse	cōnsēnsa	cōnsēnsum		cōnsēnsī	cōnsēnsae	cōnsēnsa

References

• “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