consensus

1. 1.

   agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole

   “the lack of consensus reflected differences in theoretical positions”

   “those rights and obligations are based on an unstated consensus”

   Broaderagreement

Other forms of consensus

plural

consensuses·

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 consensus

What does consensus mean?

consensus means "agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole".

How many syllables are in consensus?

consensus has 3 syllables: con-sen-sus. The stress falls on "sen". In IPA it is /kənˈsɛnsəs/.

Is consensus a common word?

consensus is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with consensus?

1 word rhymes with consensus. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.