concordance

1. 1.

   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 whole

   Synonymsharmonyconcord

   Broaderorder

   Narrowerpeacecomityagreement
2. 2.

   agreement of opinions

   Synonymsharmonyconcord

   Broaderagreement
3. 3.

   an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts

   Broaderindex

Other forms of concordance

plural

concordances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about concordance

What does concordance mean?

concordance means "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 whole". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in concordance?

concordance has 3 syllables: con-cor-dance. The stress falls on "con".

What is another word for concordance?

Close synonyms include harmony, concord, harmony, concord. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is concordance a common word?

concordance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.