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concordance vs agreement

agreement vs concordance

concordance and agreement both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
concordance Yes No No No
agreement Yes No No No
As nouns, agreement is a hypernym of concordance; that is, agreement is a word with a broader meaning than concordance:
  • concordance: agreement of opinions
  • agreement: the verbal act of agreeing
As nouns, agreement is a hyponym of concordance; that is, agreement is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than concordance:
  • concordance: a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
  • agreement: harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
Other hyponyms of concordance include peace, comity, accord.
concordance (noun) agreement (noun)
an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts compatibility of observations
agreement of opinions the thing arranged or agreed to
a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole the verbal act of agreeing
the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
Difference between concordance and agreement

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