congruence

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

congruence
    n 1: the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
         [syn: {congruity}, {congruousness}, {congruence}] [ant:
         {incongruity}, {incongruousness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Congruence \Con"gru*ence\, n. [L. congruentia: cf. OF.
   cornguence.]
   Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.
   --Holland.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

57 Moby Thesaurus words for "congruence":
      accord, accordance, affinity, agreement, assent, chorus,
      coequality, coherence, coincidence, compatibility, concert,
      concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity,
      congeniality, congruency, congruity, consistency, consonance,
      consort, cooperation, correspondence, equality, equivalence,
      harmony, homogeneity, homoousia, identity, indistinguishability,
      intersection, no difference, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace,
      rapport, sameness, self-consistency, self-identity, selfhood,
      selfness, selfsameness, symmetry, sync, synchronism, synonymity,
      synonymousness, synonymy, tally, timing, uniformity, union, unison,
      unisonance, unity