consilience
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
consilience /kənˈsɪlɪəns/
▶noun agreement between the approaches to a topic of different academic subjects, especially science and the humanities.
– derivatives
consilient adjective.
consilient adjective.
– origin from con- + L. -silient-, -siliens ‘jumping’ (as in resilient- resilient), after concurrent.
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