'Consilience' definitions:

Definition of 'Consilience'

From: GCIDE
  • Consilience \Con*sil"i*ence\, n. [con- + salire to leap.] Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence. [1913 Webster]
  • The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. --Whewell. [1913 Webster] Consimilitude