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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, analogy, coherence, coincidence, comparability, comparison, concurrence, conformity, congruity, consistency, correlation, equivalence, fitness, harmony, likeness, match, regularity, relation, resemblance, similarity, symmetry |
| Antonyms: | difference, disagreement |
| Concept: | Correspondence. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; written language |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
correpondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty, letter card, picture post card; postal, postal card; despatch; dispatch; bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription; post (messenger).
-verbs
correspond with; write to, send a letter to; keep up a correspondence; post a letter to.
-adjectives
epistolary.
-phrases
furor scribendi.
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| Main Entry: | accord |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, mutual understanding (often written) |
| Synonyms: | 10-4, accordance, concert, concord, concurrence, conformity, congruence, correspondence, deal, good vibes, good vibrations, harmony, okay, pact, rapport, reconciliation, sympathy, treaty, unanimity |
| Notes: | something (a quality) is in accord with something else; something acts in accordance with something else (an activity) |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, denial, disagreement, dissension, opposition, refusal |
| Main Entry: | adaptation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | condition of something resulting from change |
| Synonyms: | acclimatization, accustomedness, agreement, assuefaction, compliance, correspondence, familiarization, habituation, naturalization |
| Main Entry: | affinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | similarity |
| Synonyms: | alikeness, alliance, analogy, association, closeness, connection, correspondence, kinship, likeness, relation, relationship, resemblance, semblance, similitude |
| Notes: | an affinity is a relationship by marriage and consanguinity is a blood relationship |
| Antonyms: | dissimilarity |
| Main Entry: | agreement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concurrence |
| Synonyms: | acceding, accession, accommodation, accord, accordance, acknowledging, adjustment, affiliation, affinity, alliance, amity, approving, arbitration, arrangement, assenting, authorizing, bargaining, compatibility, compliance, complying, compromise, concert, concession, concord, concordance, concurring, conformity, congruity, consistency, correspondence, endorsing, granting, harmony, mediation, ratifying, reconciliation, similarity, suitableness, sympathy, understanding, union, unison, verification, verifying |
| Antonyms: | disagreement |
| Main Entry: | analogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, similarity |
| Synonyms: | affinity, alikeness, comparison, correlation, correspondence, equivalence, homology, likeness, metaphor, parallel, relation, relationship, resemblance, semblance, simile, similitude |
| Notes: | analogy is when two different things share characteristics that lead to a comparison between them; an analogue is one of the things compared |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dissimilarity, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | balance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | equilibrium |
| Synonyms: | antithesis, correspondence, counterbalance, equity, equivalence, even-steven, evenness, hang, harmony, parity, proportion, stasis, symmetry, tension |
| Antonyms: | disproportion, imbalance, instability |
| Main Entry: | coherence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | adherence, attachment, bond, cementation, cling, clinging, comprehensibility, concordance, conformity, congruity, connection, consistency, consonance, construction, continuity, correspondence, inseparability, inseparableness, integrity, intelligibility, rationality, relations, solidarity, stickage, tenacity, union, unity |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, incoherence, incongruity, nonsense, unintelligibility |
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