consense

English

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Etymology

Back-formation from consensus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɛns/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kənˈsens/

Verb

consense (third-person singular simple present consenses, present participle consensing, simple past and past participle consensed)

1. To agree; to form by consensus.
   • 1970, Harry Hay, “Western Homophile Conference Keynote Address,” in Speaking for Our Lives, Robert B Ridinger ed. , 2003

     We consense, we affirm and re-affirm the Free Community of Spirit, we acknowledge a spokesman to voice our thinking when such voicings seem called for.

   • 1999, Mary Walton, Car

     It’s overblown, it isn’t quite as consensus-oriented management as you might think—but did they consense on this over twenty years?

   • 2003, Milan Daniel, “Algebraic Structures Related to the Consensus Operator for Combining of Beliefs,” in Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning With Uncertainty, Thomas D. Nielsen and Nevin L Zhang edd.

     Consensus of two opinions is Bayesian iff at least one of the opinions consensed (i.e. combined by the consensus operator) is Bayesian.

Noun

consense (plural consenses)

1. agreement
   • 1995, Max Pensky, “Universalism and the situated critic,” in The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, Stephen K White ed.

     In this way the rational constitution of a democratic state is the embodiment of a preestablished, decontextualized social contract, an expectation on which all particular consenses and compromises must be based: [...]

   • 1999, M. Banzi et al., “An Experience in Configuration Management in SODALIA,” in System Configuration Management, Jacky Estublier ed.

     Special thanks to Michele Marini for his revision and his consense to the effort necessary in the writing of the paper.

   • 2001, Azizah Y al-Hibri, “Standing at the Precipice,” in Religion in American Public Life, Azizah Y al-Hibri et al. edd.

     If one raises the bar too high—seeking, say, civil harmony and unity rather than the possibility of working and shifting consenses and a comingling of pluralities and commonalities—religious differences are always going to be problematic at best.

Anagrams

• onceness

Latin

Adjective

cōnsēnse

1. vocative masculine singular of cōnsēnsus