consensus
/kənˈsɛnsəs
/noun [usually in singular]
A general agreement: [with clause]: there is a growing consensus that the current regime has failed [as modifier]: a consensus view...
- The general consensus of opinion has it that love is not a good thing for professional sportsmen.
- The general consensus is that they are in public life for what they can get out of it.
- The general consensus is that faith in an afterlife is a positive psychological state.
Synonyms
agreement, harmony, concord, like-mindedness, concurrence, consent, common consent, accord, unison, unity, unanimity, oneness, solidarity, concert
general opinion/view, majority opinion/view, common opinion/view
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin, 'agreement', from consens- 'agreed', from the verb consentire.
Rhymes
- Spanish chestnut
- Spanish Civil War
- Spanish-Colonial
- Spanish flu
- Spanish fly
- Spanish guitar
- Spanish influenza
- Spanish Inquisition
- Spanish mackerel
- Spanish Main
- Spanish Mission
- Spanish moss
- Spanish needles
- Spanishness
- Spanish omelette
- Spanish onion
- Spanish practice
- Spanish rice
- Spanish Sahara
- Spanish Succession, War of the
- Spanish Town
- Spanish windlass
- spank
- spanker
- spanking