consensus vs contention

consensus

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

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

  • Average projected value. 

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

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

contention

noun
  • Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource. 

  • Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle. 

  • A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for. 

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