common consent
Mutual tacit acceptance
Common consent is agreement among all or most members of a group, reached without formal voting or explicit opposition.
Something accepted by common consent has the tacit approval of everyone involved: By common consent, we avoided discussing politics at dinner.
The phrase often describes informal social agreements rather than official decisions.
- concurrenceState of agreeing
- meeting of the mindsMutual agreement between parties
- accordHarmony between parties
- unanimityComplete group agreement
- agreementShared position between parties
endorsement · nod of approval · ratification · vox populi · folkways · mores · solidarity · convention · tradition · mutual understanding · group decision · shared values · custom · unwritten rule · public opinion · democracy · approval · harmony
common consentdissent
Disagreement with authority
disagreement · objection · opposition · dispute · discord
common consentballot
Voting document
roll call vote · majority rule · show of hands · poll · plebiscite
common consentautocratic rule
Governance by unchecked authority
imposition · coercion · dictate · fiat · decree
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