consensus

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kənˈsɛnsəs/
Audio (CA) (file)

Noun

consensus (countable and uncountable, plural consensuses)

A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action.
After years of debate over the best wine to serve at Thanksgiving, no real consensus has emerged.
reach consensus
(computing) An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation.
(attributive) Average projected value.
a financial consensus forecast

Antonyms

dissensus

Derived terms

consensus reality
consensus theorem
consensus trance

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sent-‎ (2 c, 0 e)

Collocations

Collocations with adjectives

general consensus
broad consensus
universal consensus
common consensus
clear consensus
little consensus
popular consensus
international consensus
political consensus
scientific consensus
social consensus
national consensus
scholarly consensus
silent consensus
unspoken consensus

Translations

general agreement

Arabic: إِجْمَاع‎ (ar) m (ʾijmāʿ), تَوَافُق‎ m (tawāfuq)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: съгла́сие (bg) n (sǎglásie), единоду́шие (bg) n (edinodúšie), консе́нсус m (konsénsus)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 共識／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: yhteisymmärrys (fi), yksimielisyys (fi), konsensus (fi)
French: consensus (fr) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Konsens (de) m, Einvernehmen (de) n, Einigkeit (de) f, Übereinstimmung (de) f
Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌵𐌹𐍃𐍃 f (samaqiss)
Greek: ομοφωνία (el) f (omofonía), κοινή συναίνεση f (koiní synaínesi)
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hindi: संप्रतिपत्ति (hi) f (sampratipatti)
Hungarian: egyezség (hu)
Indonesian: konsensus (id), kesepakatan (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)
Kazakh: бәтуа (bätua), бәтуаластық (bätualastyq), пәтуа (pätua), пәтуаластық (pätualastyq)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 합의(合意) (ko) (habui)
Latin: consensus m
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: konsensus (no) m
Nynorsk: konsensus m
Persian: اجماع‎ (fa) m (ejmâ')
Polish: konsensus (pl) m inan
Portuguese: consenso (pt) m
Romanian: consens (ro) n
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)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: konsensüs (tr)
Ukrainian: консе́нсус m (konsénsus), зго́да f (zhóda)
Vietnamese: sự đồng lòng, sự đồng thuận (vi), sự đồng tâm (vi), sự nhất trí (vi)

Verb

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

(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.

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌkɔnˈsɛn.zʏs/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: con‧sen‧sus

Noun

consensus m (uncountable)

consensus

Synonyms

overeenstemming

Descendants

→ Papiamentu: kònsènsùs
→ Indonesian: konsènsus

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

consensus m (plural consensus)

consensus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈsen.sus/, [kõːˈs̠ẽːs̠ʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈsen.sus/, [konˈsɛnsus]

Noun

cōnsēnsus m (genitive cōnsēnsūs); fourth declension

Consensus, agreement, accordance, unanimity, concord, harmony.
Synonyms: cōnsēnsiō, concordia, cōnspīrātiō, congruentia
Antonyms: discordia, dissidentia, dissēnsiō
A plot, conspiracy.
Synonyms: cōnsēnsiō, cōnspīrātiō, coniūrātiō

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
→ Sicilian: cunzenzu
→ Spanish: consenso
→ Turkish: konsensüs

Adjective

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

(rare) agreed upon

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	cōnsēnsus	cōnsēnsa	cōnsēnsum	cōnsēnsī	cōnsēnsae	cōnsēnsa
Genitive	cōnsēnsī	cōnsēnsae	cōnsēnsī	cōnsēnsōrum	cōnsēnsārum	cōnsēnsōrum
Dative	cōnsēnsō	cōnsēnsae	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, 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

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