2022-01-26
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – C - concensus & consensus
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียง concensus - No such word in ENGLISH
ออกเสียง consensus = “Kuhn-SEN-suhs”
Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary
concensus & consensus
You might suppose that this word
had to do with taking a census of the participants in a discussion,
but it doesn’t.
It is a good old Latin word that has to do with
arriving at a common sense of the meeting, and the fourth letter is an “S.”
Dictionary.com:
USAGE NOTE FOR CONSENSUS
Many say that the phrase consensus of opinion is redundant
and hence should be avoided:
The committee's statement represented a consensus of opinion.
The expression is redundant, however,
only if consensus is taken in the sense
“majority of opinion” rather than in its equally valid
and earlier sense “general agreement or concord.”
Criticism of consensus of opinion has been so persistent
and widespread that the phrase, even though in common use,
occurs only infrequently in edited formal writing.
The phrase general consensus is objected to for similar reasons.
Consensus is now widely used attributively,
especially in the phrase consensus politics.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Is the phrase consensus of opinion redundant?: Usage Guide
The phrase consensus of opinion,
which is not actuallyredundant
(see sense 1a; the sense that takes the phrase is slightly older),
has been so often claimed to be a redundancy that many writers avoid it.
You are safe in using consensus alone
when it is clear you mean consensus of opinion,
and most writers in fact do so.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Usage Notes
Is 'Consensus of Opinion' Redundant?
Many people find comfort in certainty (or at least in the illusion of it),
both in language and in life,
eschewing wherever possible the messiness of ambiguity.
For example,
we can usually find certainty when considering moral matters
and the like, but insofar as language is concerned,
finding that level of clarity can sometimes be a troublesome endeavor.
Take, for example, the issue of redundancy.
We seem to allow certain kinds of redundancy,
particularly when they're not immediately apparent,
or when they provide some benefit,
such as improved clarity or a euphonious meter.
An example of this permissible redundancy
is found in Shakespeare’s Richard II, in which he wrote
“And both return back to their chairs”
(if they return, it is redundant to also use back).
Other forms of redundancy,
such as ATM machine, stick in the craws of many
(as the non-abbreviated form of this would be automatic teller machine).
But while one of these clearly feels right to most people
and the other sounds discordant,
English provides us with many less obvious cases,
such as consensus of opinion.
This combination of words has been widely shunned
by many usage guides over the past century,
based on the notion that
consensus carries the meaning “collective opinion”
and therefore the word opinion is not necessary.
However, the “opinion” sense of consensus is
but one of several possible meanings,
and claiming that it should never be paired with opinion
is perhaps an overly strict interpretation.
The “collective opinion” sense of consensus
includes the idea of “judgment arrived at by most of those concerned,”
which does not typically indicate unanimity:
when paired with consensus used in this way,
using opinion can bring us perilously close to a logical redundancy.
However, another meaning of consensus
is “general agreement; unanimity,”
and when added to this sense opinion is not so redundant.
Both of these senses appear to have originated in mid-19th century English, and we have been using consensus of opinion for over 150 years now.
In spite of the century-long campaign against this turn
of phrase consensus of opinion may still be found
in well-edited and respectable publications,
albeit with less frequency than it had previously enjoyed.
Our usage guide advises that
although consensus of opinion is not actually redundant,
many nonetheless believe it is
and your use of the phrase may run the risk of censure.
If you're not one to heed the (albeit mistaken) consensus of opinion on this particular subject,
you can rest assured that your position is defensible.
Collins English Dictionary:
Usage:
Since consensus refers to a collective opinion,
the words of opinion in the phrase consensus of opinion are
redundant and should therefore be avoided.
Farlex Trivia Dictionary.
consensus -Came into English in a physiological sense,
meaning "a set of organs"
or the "involuntary or reflex actions of the nervous system."
See also related terms for organs.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary:
usage:
The expression consensus of opinion is sometimes criticized
as being redundant
on the basis that consensus alone conveys the meaning.
Although the redundancy argument is weakened
if consensus is taken in its earlier and valid sense
of “general agreement or concord,”
the criticism against this phrase has been so persistent
that consensus of opinion
occurs only infrequently in edited formal writing.
The phrase general consensus is also objected to as redundant.
