Consensus vs. Agreement
Difference Between Consensus and Agreement
Consensusnoun
An opinion or position reached by a group as a whole
"Among political women ... there is a clear consensus about the problems women candidates have traditionally faced" (Wendy Kaminer). See Usage Note at redundancy.Agreementnoun
The act of agreeing
When did the agreement take place?.Consensusnoun
General agreement or accord
government by consensus.Agreementnoun
Harmony of opinion; accord
Since we are all in agreement, let's proceed.Consensusnoun
A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
Agreementnoun
An arrangement between parties, usually resulting from a discussion, regarding a course of action.
Consensusnoun
General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action.
Agreementnoun
A properly executed and legally binding contract.
Consensusnoun
(attributive) Average projected value.
a financial consensus forecastAgreementnoun
The writing or document embodying this contract.
Consensusnoun
agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole;
the lack of consensus reflected differences in theoretical positionsthose rights and obligations are based on an unstated consensusAgreementnoun
(Grammar) Correspondence in gender, number, case, or person between words.
Agreementnoun
(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
to enter an agreement;the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement;he nodded his agreement.Agreementnoun
(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.Agreementnoun
A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
Agreementnoun
Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
Agreementnoun
An agreeable quality.
Agreementnoun
the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;
they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's businessthere was an understanding between management and the workersAgreementnoun
compatibility of observations;
there was no agreement between theory and measurementthe results of two tests were in correspondenceAgreementnoun
harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters;
the two parties were in agreementAgreementnoun
the thing arranged or agreed to;
they made arrangements to meet in ChicagoAgreementnoun
the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
Agreementnoun
the verbal act of agreeing
