Consensus and Decision

Consensus

Consensus noun - The state of being of one opinion about something.

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Decision and consensus are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Decision" instead a noun "Consensus".

Nearby Word: consensual

Decision noun - A position arrived at after consideration.

Usage example: after much deliberation, we made a decision about what to have on our pizza

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Consensus and decision are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Consensus" instead a noun "Decision".

Nearby Words: decided, decide, decisive, decisively, deciding

good	good consensus	good decision
critical	critical consensus	critical decision
single	single consensus	single decision
small	small consensus	small decision
Other adjectives: collective, bad, major, political, final, mutual, official, unanimous.

Can also suffer from the procedure of establishing political consensus required whenever a collective decision needs to be made.

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Therefore they shouldn't arbitrarily make their decision by popular consensus but to make the most informed decision possible, made by the person best qualified to understand the theory and complexities of the payload delivery, physicist Capa.

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Flexibility. Whenever a collective decision must be made, consensus (or at least democratic majority) must be established.

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