# consensus
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kənˈsɛnsəs/
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

consensus (countable and uncountable, plural consensuses or consensus)
* A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
* General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each member 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.
* (computing) An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation.
* (attributive) Average projected value.
    a financial consensus forecast

#### Antonyms

* dissensus

#### Derived terms

* anticonsensus
* consensual
* consensus ad idem
* consensus conference
* consensus national champion
* consensus reality
* consensus theorem
* consensus trance
* metaconsensus
* nonconsensus
* pseudoconsensus
* subconsensus

#### Collocations

* 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
### 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.

### 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.
* “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

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

consensus m (plural consensus)
* consensus

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /konˈsen.sus/, [kõːˈs̠ẽːs̠ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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.

#### 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.

### 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