noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: coincidence
Antonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 2
The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
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.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Catalan:
consiliència
— concurrence of multiple inductions
Esperanto:
konsilienco
— concurrence of multiple inductions
Finnish:
konsilienssi
— concurrence of multiple inductions
French:
consilience
— concurrence of multiple inductions
German:
Konsilienz
— concurrence of multiple inductions
Korean:
통섭
(tongseop)
— concurrence of multiple inductions
Polish:
konsyliencja
— concurrence of multiple inductions
Portuguese:
consiliência
— concurrence of multiple inductions
Spanish:
consiliencia
— concurrence of multiple inductions
German:
Konsilienz
— agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines