1. The agreement or harmony of different branches of knowledge or evidence that independently point to the same conclusion.
Usage: Formal; often used in scientific and academic contexts

Examples

• The consilience of fossil records, DNA evidence, and anatomical studies strongly supports the theory of evolution.
• Scientists seek consilience between physics and chemistry to understand molecular behavior.
• The consilience of historical documents and archaeological findings confirmed the existence of the ancient city.
• In medicine, consilience of symptoms, lab results, and imaging helps doctors make accurate diagnoses.
• The researcher found consilience between the survey data and the experimental results, strengthening her conclusions.