'Correspondence' definitions:
Definition of 'correspondence'
(from WordNet)
noun
Communication by the exchange of letters
noun
Compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and measurement"; "the results of two tests were in correspondence" [syn: agreement, correspondence]
noun
The relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount [syn: commensurateness, correspondence, proportionateness]
noun
(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane [syn: symmetry, symmetricalness, correspondence, balance] [ant: asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance]
noun
Similarity by virtue of corresponding [syn: parallelism, correspondence]
Definition of 'Correspondence'
From: GCIDE
- Correspondence \Cor`re*spond"ence\ (-sp?nd"ens), n. [Cf. F. correspondance.]
- 1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. [1913 Webster]
- Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The letters which pass between correspondents. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'correspondence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accommodation,
- accompaniment,
- accord,
- accordance,
- account,
- acquiescence,
- adaptation,
- adaption,
- adjustment,
- affinity,
- agape,
- agreement,
- airmail,
- alikeness,
- alliance,
- amity,
- analogy,
- annals,
- answer,
- aping,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assent,
- assimilation,
- association,
- balance,
- bilateral symmetry,
- bonds of harmony,
- book post,
- brotherly love,
- cahoots,
- calm,
- caritas,
- catalog,
- cement of friendship,
- charity,
- chorus,
- chronicle,
- closeness,
- co-working,
- coaction,
- coequality,
- coextension,
- coherence,
- coincidence,
- collaboration,
- collectivity,
- collusion,
- combination,
- combined effort,
- commerce,
- communication,
- communion,
- community,
- community of interests,
- comparability,
- comparison,
- compatibility,
- compliance,
- concert,
- concerted action,
- concomitance,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confluence,
- conformance,
- conformation,
- conformation other-direction,
- conformity,
- congeniality,
- congress,
- congruence,
- congruency,
- congruity,
- conjunction,
- connection,
- consilience,
- consistency,
- consonance,
- consort,
- conspiracy,
- constancy,
- contact,
- continuity,
- conventionality,
- conversation,
- converse,
- cooperation,
- copying,
- corelation,
- correlation,
- correlativism,
- correlativity,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- direct mail,
- direct-mail selling,
- documentation,
- dynamic symmetry,
- empathy,
- equability,
- equality,
- equanimity,
- equation,
- equilibrium,
- equipoise,
- equipollence,
- equiponderance,
- equity,
- equivalence,
- equivalency,
- ESP,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- eurythmics,
- eurythmy,
- evenness,
- exchange,
- express,
- feeling of identity,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- finish,
- flexibility,
- fourth-class mail,
- frank,
- frictionlessness,
- good vibes,
- good vibrations,
- halfpenny post,
- happy family,
- harmony,
- history,
- homogeneity,
- homoousia,
- identity,
- imitation,
- indistinguishability,
- information,
- interaction,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunion,
- intercourse,
- interplay,
- intersection,
- inventory,
- inverse proportion,
- inverse ratio,
- inverse relationship,
- junction,
- junk mail,
- justice,
- keeping,
- kinship,
- letter post,
- letters,
- levelness,
- like-mindedness,
- likeness,
- likening,
- line,
- linguistic intercourse,
- list,
- love,
- mail,
- mail-order selling,
- mailing list,
- malleability,
- memorial,
- message,
- mimicking,
- monolithism,
- multilateral symmetry,
- mutuality,
- nearness,
- newspaper post,
- no difference,
- obedience,
- observance,
- oneness,
- orthodoxy,
- overlap,
- par,
- parallelism,
- parasitism,
- parcel post,
- parity,
- peace,
- persistence,
- pipe roll,
- pliancy,
- poise,
- polarity,
- post,
- post day,
- PP,
- proportion,
- proportionality,
- rapport,
- rapprochement,
- RD,
- reciprocality,
- reciprocation,
- reciprocity,
- reconcilement,
- reconciliation,
- record,
- recording,
- register,
- registered mail,
- registry,
- regularity,
- relativity,
- relic,
- remains,
- reply,
- resemblance,
- response,
- RFD,
- roll,
- rolls,
- roster,
- rota,
- rural delivery,
- rural free delivery,
- sameness,
- saprophytism,
- scroll,
- sea mail,
- seapost,
- self-consistency,
- self-identity,
- selfhood,
- selfness,
- selfsameness,
- semblance,
- shapeliness,
- sharing,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- simultaneity,
- social intercourse,
- solidarity,
- speaking,
- special delivery,
- special handling,
- speech,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- stability,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- strictness,
- surface mail,
- symbiosis,
- symmetricalness,
- symmetry,
- sympathy,
- symphony,
- sync,
- synchronism,
- synergy,
- synonymity,
- synonymousness,
- synonymy,
- table,
- talking,
- tally,
- team spirit,
- telepathy,
- timing,
- token,
- touch,
- trace,
- traditionalism,
- traffic,
- trilateral symmetry,
- truck,
- two-way communication,
- understanding,
- uniformity,
- union,
- unison,
- unisonance,
- united action,
- unity,
- unruffledness,
- vestige