concordance
Other forms: concordances
Concordance happens when everything agrees. It can refer to an agreement of opinions, or it can describe things that are in harmony. Your words may be in concordance with your actions — that means they're expressing the same thing.
Concordance traces back to the Latin word concordans, meaning "being of one mind." When things are in concordance, it's as if they're of one mind: they agree or are in harmony. A talented home designer will remodel an interior so there's concordance from room to room. If you're a scholarly type, you might already know concordance can also be a list of the main words in a book, usually linked to the passages where they occur.
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a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the wholesynonyms: concord, consonance, harmonytypes:peaceharmonious relations; freedom from disputescomitya state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respectcomity of nationscourteous respect by one nation for the laws and institutions of anotherconsensusagreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a wholesense of the meetinggeneral agreement reached by an assembled groupunanimityeveryone being of one mindunisonthe state of corresponding exactlysocial contractan implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protectiontype of:orderestablished customary state (especially of society)
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agreement of opinions
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an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contextstype of:indexan alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed
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