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Definition: Consensus |
ConsensusNoun1. Agreement of the majority in sentiment or belief. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "consensus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Etymology: Consensus \Con*sen"sus\, noun. [Latin expression See Consent.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Social Sciences | General agreement, characterized by the absence of sustained opposition to substantial issues by any important part of the concerned interests and by a process that involves seeking to take into account the views of all parties concerned and to reconcile any conflicting arguments. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CONVERGE | English | Telematics sector consensus and support | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ConsensusSynonym: general agreement (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Phrase: rem acu tetigisti; if the shoe fits, wear it; the cap fits; auxilia humilia firma consensus facit; discers concordia. |
Assent | Unanimity, common consent, consensus, acclamation, chorus, vox populi; popular belief, current belief, current opinion; public opinion; concurrence; (of causes); cooperation; (voluntary). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Consensus |
| English words defined with "consensus": kingdom Monera ♦ Monera. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "consensus": Amino Acid Motifs, ANSI ♦ Byzantine generals ♦ Commercial Internet eXchange, Consensus Development Conferences, NIH, Consensus Sequence, Conserved Sequence, cyberpunk ♦ de facto standard, Delphi Technique, drag and drop ♦ earnings surprises ♦ Gamma-Ray Burst ♦ International commodity agreement ♦ Luser Attitude Re-adjustment Tool ♦ microLenat ♦ PATHFINDER DATA SET, porcine endogenous retrovirus B1 ♦ Receptors, Complement 3b ♦ social reality ♦ track gage. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Consensus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (consensus), Latin (act together, agree, agreed upon, assent to, be consistent, be in agreement, be in conjunction, be of the same mind, coincide, combine, combined action, consent, conspire, custom, favor, feeling, fit, general consensus, harmony, in sympathy, join, plot, share in sensation, sympathy, unison with). |
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Screenplays | But if that ain't the consensus view, then hell, let's put it to a vote. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Consensus (1989) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Consensus -- what's that?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abba Eban | Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | The consensus of opinion among all nations, on whatever matter, may be taken for the law of nature. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Acromegaly Therapy Consensus Development Panel. (references) | |
The full text of the consensus panel's statement follows. (references) | ||
These recommendations reflect the consensus of the panel. (references) | ||
Business | Decisions at the federal level are generally made by consensus of the sheiks of the seven emirates and leading families. (references) | |
There are no statistics that can meet with industry consensus as to sales made on Internet nor even on the number of Internet users. (references) | ||
In Italy general consensus is that improvements are being driven more by new environmental legislation rather than by internal innovation. (references) | ||
Children | Canada | Nonetheless, a general consensus among the media, NGO's, and civil society considered the offer fair and the case closed. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Kuwait | The diwaniya system contributes to the development of political consensus and official decisionmaking. (references) |
Somalia | Proselytizing for any religion except Islam is prohibited by law in Puntland and Somaliland and effectively blocked by informal social consensus elsewhere in the country. (references) | |
Discrimination | Mexico | The consensus among gay rights groups is that the police fail to investigate these crimes seriously. (references) |
Economic History | Sweden | Last time around the consensus forecast was for 3.5 percent. (references) |
Sweden | Swedish foreign policy has been the result of a wide consensus. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bulgaria | There also appears to be a legal consensus that the pretrial detention limits apply cumulatively to all of the separate periods of detention; for example, in cases where defendants' cases have been sent to the courts for review and returned to prosecutors for further investigation. (references) |
Algeria | The Institute also had taken representatives of all the country's major political parties to the U.S. promoting democratization, including by meeting regularly with and conducting seminars for political parties and training them in a variety of political skills ranging from grassroots consensus development to constituent services. (references) | |
Nigeria | The Oputa Panel can recommend courses of action to the justice system for perpetrators of past abuses, something the NHRC does not do. According to Justice Oputa, the chair, the panel's primary goal is to provide the country with a systematic examination of past human rights abuses to develop a national consensus on the boundaries of acceptable behavior by government entities as well as individuals. (references) | |
Minorities | Slovak Republic | Experts claim these results reflect a greater underrepresentation of the actual number of Roma than the 1991 consensus. (references) |
Political Economy | CZECH REPUBLIC | The bank follows OECD consensus on export credits. (references) |
Switzerland | The Federal Council strives to present a collegial image and to govern by consensus. (references) | |
Political Rights | Bhutan | Consensus approval takes place at a public gathering. (references) |
Bhutan | Each village is permitted to nominate one candidate but must do so by consensus. (references) | |
Bhutan | The name put to villagers for consensus approval by the headman is suggested to him by district officials, who in turn take their direction from the central Government. (references) | |
Trade | Norway | Government-supported loans are regulated under the OECD consensus agreement. (references) |
Netherlands | This stems, in part, from the traditional Dutch emphasis on achieving consensus and avoiding conflict in this small and densely populated country. (references) | |
India | The government has shown a strong consensus towards major divestment in the banking industry, whereby it will reduce its holdings in the major public sector banks. (references) | |
Travel | Vietnam | In building a consensus, it may prove impossible to "steamroller" the minority opinion, which must be wooed instead. (references) |
Sweden | Perhaps due to the Swedish tradition of social democracy or the great egalitarian concerns, Swedish managers are more consensus builders than decision-makers. (references) | |
Vietnam | The social dynamics and world-view of Vietnam's society are reflected in the business climate including such matters as: 'face', consensus building, and the zero-sum game assumption. (references) | |
Women | Chad | The various religious and ethnic communities could not reach any consensus. (references) |
Australia | Social analysts and commentators estimate that domestic violence may affect as many as one family in three or four, but there is no consensus on the extent of the problem. (references) | |
Switzerland | In June the Federal Department of Justice submitted for discussion a draft bill on the financing of maternity leave through a mixture of public and private funding to various civic organizations, but it referred the matter back to the Parliament in November when consultations were unable to reach a consensus. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Egypt | Disputes more often are resolved by consensus in private. (references) |
Brunei | In addition, cultural tradition favors consensus over confrontation. (references) | |
Guatemala | On December 16, 2000, a minimum wage increase, promulgated by Executive Branch decree after the tripartite commission was unable to reach a consensus, took effect. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dan Rather | Well I think, with all respect, that you didn't understand what I said. That is not my opinion. I said this was Ariel Sharon's opinion, and was the prevailing, widespread consensus in Israel itself, making that comparison. |
Donald Rumsfeld | OK, but, first of all, I don't agree with the premise. And second, I think that there may be an individual or two who feel that way, but I think that's not the consensus at all. |
Richard Gephardt | Bob, I have tremendous respect for both of them. But as I tried to say yesterday, I think this is a time when both sides need to try as hard as they possibly can to reach consensus and bipartisan agreement. |
Senator Joseph Biden | I think the United States talks to the Arab world, starting with the Saudis, the Egyptians and the Jordanians. And they are the ones that create the consensus and force Arafat into the position to negotiate a real deal. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | There is a consensus among the four Central American democratic presidents that the Sandinistas have not complied with the plan to bring peace and democracy to all of Central America. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The first thing we have got to do is to forge a new consensus on trade. |
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| "Consensus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.83% of the time. "Consensus" is used about 1,782 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.83% | 1,779 | 4,745 |
| Noun (common) | 0.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,782 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "consensus": auxilia humilia firma consensus facit ♦ Consensus Development Conference [Publication Type] ♦ Consensus Development Conferences ♦ consensus sequence ♦ reach a consensus. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "consensus": consensus-backed, consensus-based, consensus-building, consensus--often, consensus-run, consensus-seeking. | |
Ending with "consensus": quasi-consensus, value-consensus. | |
Containing "consensus": agreement-consensus-on. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "consensus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | marrëveshje e përgjithshme, konsensus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إتفاق جماعي في الرأي, إجماع (assent, unanimity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съгласие (accord, accordance, agreement, approval, assent, compliance, concert, concord, concurrence, congruence, consent, consonance, consort, fiat, grant, harmony, rapport, sympathy, understanding, union, unison, unity, yea, yes), консенсус, единодушие (consentaneity, oneness, unanimity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 公众舆论, 共識 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | souhlas (acceptance, accord, agreement, applause, approbation, approval, assent, blessing, compliance, conformity, consent, consistency, correspondence, nod, ok, okay, permission, say so), konsenz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | konsensus (meeting of the minds), enighed (agreement, consent, permission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | consensus, wilsovereenstemming. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وفاق , توافق عام , اجماع , رضایت وموافقت عمومی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yksimielisyys (concord, unanimity, unity), konsensus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | consensus (group consensus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Konsens (agreement, assent, consent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοινή συναίνεση, συναίνεση (acquiescence, consent), ομοφωνία (unanimity, unison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קו ס זוס, "סכמ" כללית. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megegyezés (accord, accordance, agreement, arrangement, coincidence, concurrence, congruence, consilience, consistence, consistency, consonance, consonancy, consort, contract, covenant, entente, go, squaring, stand in, stand-in, understanding), konszenzus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | persetujuan (agreement, approval, assent, bargain, concert, concordance, deal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | consenso (accord, assentation, concurrence, consent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | コンシューマ製" (concentration, concentrator, concentric, concept, concept advertisement, conception, conceptual art, concessionary chain, consent, conservatoire, console, console type, consomme, consortium, constant, constellation system, constitution, constraint, construct, constructor, consumer goods, consumer products, control strip, electrical outlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | コンセンサス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 일치 (Accordance, According, Coincidence, matching, rapport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onsensuscay consenso (agreement, consent, permission). (various references) consens, aprobare unanimã. (various references) согласованность (agreeability, coherence, coherency, connection, connexion, consentaneity, consonance, ensemble, harmony). (various references) opšta saglasnost, konsenzus. (various references) consenso (accord). (various references) samstämmighet (accord). (various references) oy birliği, ortak görüş, organların etkileşimi, fikir birliği (concurence, unanimity). (various references) консенсус, згода (accedence, accord, accordance, adhesion, agreement, approbation, approval, arrangement, assent, compliance, concert, concord, concordance, consent, consonance, entente, fiat, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, oneness, suit, understanding, yea, yes), погодженість. (various references) sự đ"ng tâm, sự đ"ng lòng (accord). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Corinthians Chapter 6, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | TiV de sugkataqesiV naw qeou meta eidwlwn umeiV gar naoV qeou este zwntoV kaqwV eipen o qeoV oti enoikhsw en autoiV kai emperipathsw kai esomai autwn qeoV kai autoi esontai moi laoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui autem consensus templo Dei cum idolis vos enim estis templum Dei vivi sicut dicit Deus quoniam inhabitabo in illis et inambulabo et ero illorum Deus et ipsi erunt mihi populus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And what consent to the temple of God with mawmetis? And ye ben the temple of the lyuynge God, as the Lord seith, For Y schal dwelle in hem, and Y schal walke among hem; and Y schal be God of hem, and thei schulen be a puple to me. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | How agreeth the temple of god wt ymages? And ye are the temple of yt lyuynge god as sayde god. I will dwell amonge the and walke amoge the and wilbe their god: and they shalbe my people. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. |
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| Language | 2 Corinthians Chapter 6, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Unsa may pakig-uyonan sa templo sa Dios ug sa mga diosdios? Kay kita mao ang templo sa Dios nga buhi; sumala sa giingon sa Dios: Ako mopuyo sa sulod nila ug magalihok diha kanila, ug ako mahimong ilang Dios, ug sila mahimong akong katawhan. |
| Chinese | 神 的 殿 ' 偶 像 有 " 麼 相 同 呢 ． 為 我 們 是 永 " 神 的 殿 ． 就 如 神 曾 說 、 『 我 要 在 他 們 中 " 居 住 、 在 他 們 中 " 來 往 ． 我 要 作 他 們 的 神 、 他 們 要 作 我 的 子 民 。 』 |
| Croatian | Kakav sporazum hram Božji s idolima? Jer mi smo hram Boga živoga, kao što reèe Bog: Prebivat æu u njima i hoditi meðu njima; i bit æu Bog njihov, a oni narod moj. |
| Danish | Hvad Samstemning har Guds Tempel med Afguder? Thi vi ere den levende Guds Tempel, ligesom Gud har sagt: "Jeg vil bo og vandre iblandt dem, og jeg vil være deres Gud, og de skulle være mit Folk." |
| Dutch | Of wat samenvoeging heeft de tempel Gods met de afgoden? Want gij zijt de tempel des levenden Gods; gelijkerwijs God gezegd heeft: Ik zal in hen wonen, en Ik zal onder hen wandelen; en Ik zal hun God zijn, en zij zullen Mij een Volk zijn. |
| Finnish | Ja miten soveltuvat yhteen Jumalan temppeli ja epäjumalat? Sillä me olemme elävän Jumalan temppeli, niinkuin Jumala on sanonut: "Minä olen heissä asuva ja vaeltava heidän keskellään ja oleva heidän Jumalansa, ja he ovat minun kansani". |
| French | Quel rapport y a-t-il entre le temple de Dieu et les idoles? Car nous sommes le temple du Dieu vivant, comme Dieu l`a dit: J`habiterai et je marcherai au milieu d`eux; je serai leur Dieu, et ils seront mon peuple. |
| German | Was hat der Tempel Gottes für Gleichheit mit den Götzen? Ihr aber seid der Tempel des lebendigen Gottes; wie denn Gott spricht: "Ich will unter ihnen wohnen und unter ihnen wandeln und will ihr Gott sein, und sie sollen mein Volk sein. |
| Hungarian | Vagy mi egyezése Isten templomának bálványokkal? Mert ti az élõ Istennek temploma vagytok, a mint az Isten mondotta: Lakozom bennök és közöttük járok; és leszek nékik Istenök, és õk én népem lesznek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Apakah hubungannya antara Rumah Tuhan dengan rumah berhala? Kita ini Rumah Tuhan, yaitu Allah yang hidup. Allah sendiri berkata, "Aku akan tinggal di tengah-tengah mereka, dan hidup bersama-sama mereka. Aku akan menjadi Allah mereka, dan mereka akan menjadi umat-Ku. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan apakah perhubungan yang ada di antara rumah Allah dengan berhala? Karena kita inilah rumah Allah yang hidup, seperti firman Allah: Bahwa Aku akan diam dan bergerak di antara mereka itu, dan Aku akan menjadi Tuhan mereka itu, dan mereka itu akan menjadi umat-Ku. |
| Maori | A kei hea he tatanga mo te whare tapu o te Atua ki nga whakapakoko? he whare tapu hoki koutou no te Atua ora; ko ta te Atua hoki tena i mea ai, ka noho ahau i roto i a ratou, ka haereere ahau i roto i a ratou; a ko ahau hei Atua mo ratou, ko rat ou hoki hei iwi maku. |
| Norwegian | Og hvad enighet er det mellem Guds tempel og avguder? Vi er jo den levende Guds tempel, som Gud har sagt: Jeg vil bo iblandt dem og ferdes iblandt dem, og jeg vil være deres Gud, og de skal være mitt folk. |
| Rumanian | Cum se kmpacq Templul lui Dumnezeu cu idolii? Cqci noi skntem Templul Dumnezeului celui viu, cum a zis Dumnezeu: ,,Eu voi locui wi voi umbla kn mijlocul lor; Eu voi fi Dumnezeul lor, wi ei vor fi poporul Meu.`` |
| Shuar | ¿Iwiaaku Yusa jeencha ántar-yus pujustinkiait? Tura atumsha iwiaaku Yusa jéentrume. Yus Ninki ni Papiriin juna Tíchamka: Niijiai tsaninkia pujusan, niijiai wekasartatjai tura ni Yusri átatjai; tura niisha Wíi aents ajasartatui. |
| Spanish | ¿Qué acuerdo puede haber entre un templo de Dios y los ídolos? Porque nosotros somos templo del Dios viviente, como Dios dijo: Habitaré y andaré entre ellos. Yo seré su Dios, y ellos serán mi pueblo. |
| Swahili | Hekalu la Mungu lina uhusiano gani na sanamu za uongo? Maana sisi ni hekalu la Mungu aliye hai. Kama Mungu mwenyewe alivyosema: "Nitafanya makao yangu kwao, na kuishi kati yao; Nitakuwa Mungu wao, nao watakuwa watu wangu." |
| Swedish | Eller huru låter ett Guds tempel förena sig med avgudar? Vi äro ju ett den levande Gudens tempel, ty Gud har sagt: "Jag skall bo i dem och vandra ibland dem; jag skall vara deras Gud, och de skola vara mitt folk." |
| Uma | Ha hibalia-wadi Tomi Alata'ala pai' tomi pepuea' hi pinotau? Hiaa' kita' toi-mile tomi Alata'ala-e, apa' Alata'ala to Tuwu' mo'oha' hi rala nono-ta. Jadi', uma natao ane kita' to mepue' hi Alata'ala mpotuku' -ra to mepue' hi seta. Toi-mi batua-na Lolita Alata'ala owi to mpo'uli' hewa toi: Mo'oha' -a mpai' hi laintongo' -ra, pai' tida-a dohe-ra. Aku' jadi' Pue' -ra, pai' hira' jadi' ntodea-ku." |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "consensus": consensuses. (additional references) | |
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"Consensus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: concenses, concensus, concentus, consencus, consennsus, consenous, consense, consensed, consenses, consensos, consensous, consensuc, consensuse, consenus, consesus, conseusus, cosensus, konsensus, konsepsi, onsensus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "consensus" (pronounced kunse"nsus) |
| 6 | -s e" n s u s | census. |
| 3 | -s u s | acidosis, amniocentesis, analysis, antithesis, apotheosis, archdiocese, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, axis, catharsis, cirrhosis, colossus, crisis, diagnosis, dialysis, diocese, electrolysis, fibrosis, Genesis, geotaxis, glacis, heterosis, homeostasis, hydrolysis, hypnosis, hypothesis, meiosis, metamorphosis, misdiagnosis, morphogenesis, Narcissus, necrosis, nemesis, nephrosis, neurofibromatosis, neurosis, nexus, organogenesis, photosynthesis, phototaxis, plexus, preadolescence, proboscis, prognosis, prosthesis, psoriasis, psychoanalysis, psychokinesis, psychosis, rhesus, sclerosis, symbiosis, synopsis, synthesis, Tarsus, telexes, Texas, thesis, thrombosis, tuberculosis, urinalysis, versus. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-n-o-s-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: nonuses, scouses. | |
-3 letters: census, cusses, cussos, nonces, nonuse, nouses, onuses, ounces, scones, scouse, souses. | |
-4 letters: cones, conns, conus, coses, cusso, neons, nonce, nones, noses, nouns, onces, ounce, scone, sones, souse, sunns, uncos. | |
-5 letters: cess, cone, conn, cons, coss, cues, cuss, ecus, eons, neon, ness, noes, none, nose, noun, nous, nuns, once, ones, onus, oses. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-n-o-s-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: nonsuccess. | |
+2 letters: consensuses. | |
+3 letters: canorousness, confusedness, connoisseurs, nonsuccesses, scornfulness, unctuousness. | |
+4 letters: congruousness, consciousness, incuriousness, innocuousness, tenaciousness, unconsciouses, uncouthnesses. | |
+5 letters: canorousnesses, censoriousness, conclusiveness, confusednesses, contagiousness, contiguousness, continuousness, convulsiveness, incautiousness, incestuousness, indecorousness, infectiousness, licentiousness, mendaciousness, nondisclosures, perniciousness, pugnaciousness, scandalousness, scornfulnesses, uncommonnesses, unctuousnesses, ungraciousness, unsociableness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Bible Trace 16. Abbreviations | 17. Acronyms 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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