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congruence

congruence

2 6.7
A situation where something fits well with something else
  • noun
  • /kənˈɡruːəns/
translation icon : congruencia
  • The teacher emphasized the importance of congruence between academic standards and student expectations.
  • congruence and consistency
  • parent-child congruence
  • degree of congruence

Self gaslighting, sadly, may just create something called congruence in the relationship.

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Examples

  • Moral education must be shaped in congruence with a student's personality development.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The investigators went to great lengths to obtain congruence within each model.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Do things that are in congruence with who you really are.

  • None of the other correlations among stress, congruence, or consistency reached significance.

    Academic text (1992)
  • There's technology that's available now in this wonderful congruence of developments that let us do all of these things.

  • The coefficient of -0.49 indicated that greater congruence was related to lower frustration rates.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Awareness of one's behavior in congruence with the code, through supervisory feedback, can potentially ameliorate this distress.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Ernest Gellner contends that nationalism results from the congruence of polity and culture.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Her actions were in congruence with her beliefs, making her a trusted leader.

  • To achieve success, there needs to be congruence between a team's goals and individual motivations.

Synonyms

harmony
vscongruence
146 2.5

Agreement and peaceful working together between people or ideas

emphasizes exact agreement and appropriateness rather than pleasant fit
accord
vscongruence
35 4.0

A situation in which people or groups agree with each other

adds appropriateness and suitability beyond simple agreement
compatibility
vscongruence
9 3.9

A situation where two people understand each other and get along

focuses on matching suitability and exact agreement rather than coexistence
concurrence
vscongruence
5 7.2

Agreement in opinion or plan among people

concerns broader suitability and harmony rather than just shared opinion
congruency
vscongruence
1 6.3

Close agreement between ideas, actions, or values

is the standard form of the same term
congruity
vscongruence
  • Formal
1 7.4

A good match between things or ideas that makes them fit together

focuses more on general agreement and harmony than just suitability
to concord
vscongruence
  • Formal
1 8.6

To be in agreement with someone or something

extends this to include fitting suitability and harmony
congruousness
vscongruence
  • Formal
7.7

How well two things fit or match each other

is the more common form rather than this variant
harmoniousness
vscongruence
6.5

A pleasing, balanced arrangement of parts like colours or ideas

stresses precise agreement and suitability rather than mere pleasantness
consistence
vscongruence
6.9

The way parts or ideas fit together in an argument

highlights relational appropriateness and agreement rather than mere uniformity

Antonyms

268 1.6

A situation when people do not have the same opinion

1 8.1

A lack of agreement between things or ideas

How Aligned

identity
  • Specialized
15 6.5
agreement
361 1.0
congruence
2 6.7
similarity
157 2.7
difference
1.0
disagreement
268 1.6
contradiction
117 4.3

Surface Forms

congruence singular
congruences plural

Morphology

congruence = congruent (transparent) = congru + ence

The meaning is clearly derived from the adjective 'congruent' to form the noun 'congruence' indicating a state or quality.

Etymology

Congruence comes from Latin parts con- 'together' and gruere 'to come together', and it paints a picture of things that fit or agree with each other, like a person's values and actions. So congruence means harmony or being appropriate with something else.