accommodation vs consensus

accommodation

noun
  • Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise. 

  • The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part. 

  • The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment. 

  • The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object. 

  • Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. 

  • An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted. 

  • The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation. 

  • A loan of money. 

  • A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need. 

  • Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc. 

  • An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness. 

  • An accommodation bill or note. 

  • Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse. 

  • The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. 

consensus

noun
  • General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action. 

  • A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members. 

  • Average projected value. 

  • An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation. 

verb
  • To seek consensus; to hold discussions with the aim of reaching mutual agreement. 

How often have the words accommodation and consensus occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )