consilience

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets.
2. (countable, uncountable) The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.

Synonyms

conformability

congruity

rapport

Translations

consiliência

consentiment

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kənˈsɪ.li.əns/

Etymology

From Latin con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + saliō (“to bound, jump, leap”) (modelled after resiliēns (“rebounding”)) + -ence, influenced by concurrent. Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1840 in his book The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences.