concordance.

1. Agreement between accounts, judgments or observations.

2. An alphabetical index of words in a text or corpus, usually showing their locations or surrounding passages.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• concordance between measures
• concordance of results

On the page

The researchers found strong concordance between interview accounts and the recorded timelines.

Concordance between two tests increased confidence but did not establish that both were unbiased.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Singular concordance; plural concordances. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, comparison, evaluation. Disciplines: argumentation, textual analysis. Commonness: moderately common.