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consensus

noun
/kənˈsɛnsəs/

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from cōnsēnsus

Definitions

  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 member of which…

    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.

  3. An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Average projected value.

      • a financial consensus forecast

    2. To seek consensus

      To seek consensus; to hold discussions with the aim of reaching mutual agreement.

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

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Derived

anticonsensus, consensual, consensus ad idem, consensus conference, consensus national champion, consensus reality, consensus theorem, consensus trance, metaconsensus, nonconsensus, post-war consensus, pseudoconsensus, subconsensus

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for consensus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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