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Correspondence

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Correspondencen. [Cf. F. correspondance.].
  •  Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.  [1913 Webster]
    "Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state."  [1913 Webster]
    "To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office."  [1913 Webster]
  •  The letters which pass between correspondents.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Correspondence, n.
1 (usu. foll. by with, to, between) agreement, similarity, or harmony.
2 a communication by letters. b letters sent or received.

Idiom
correspondence college (or school) a college conducting correspondence courses. correspondence column the part of a newspaper etc. that contains letters from readers. correspondence course a course of study conducted by post.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. med.L correspondentia (as CORRESPOND)

THESAURUS

Correspondence

ESP, PP, RD, RFD, accommodation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, account, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, affinity, agape, agreement, airmail, alikeness, alliance, amity, analogy, annals, answer, aping, approach, approximation, assent, assimilation, association, balance, bilateral symmetry, bonds of harmony, book post, brotherly love, cahoots, calm, caritas, catalog, cement of friendship, charity, chorus, chronicle, closeness, co-working, coaction, coequality, coextension, coherence, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination, combined effort, commerce, communication, communion, community, community of interests, comparability, comparison, compatibility, compliance, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformation other-direction, conformity, congeniality, congress, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction, connection, consilience, consistency, consonance, consort, conspiracy, constancy, contact, continuity, conventionality, conversation, converse, cooperation, copying, corelation, correlation, correlativism, correlativity, dealing, dealings, direct mail, direct-mail selling, documentation, dynamic symmetry, empathy, equability, equality, equanimity, equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equity, equivalence, equivalency, esprit, esprit de corps, eurythmics, eurythmy, evenness, exchange, express, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, finish, flexibility, fourth-class mail, frank, frictionlessness, good vibes, good vibrations, halfpenny post, happy family, harmony, history, homogeneity, homoousia, identity, imitation, indistinguishability, information, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interplay, intersection, inventory, inverse proportion, inverse ratio, inverse relationship, junction, junk mail, justice, keeping, kinship, letter post, letters, levelness, like-mindedness, likeness, likening, line, linguistic intercourse, list, love, mail, mail-order selling, mailing list, malleability, memorial, message, mimicking, monolithism, multilateral symmetry, mutuality, nearness, newspaper post, no difference, obedience, observance, oneness, orthodoxy, overlap, par, parallelism, parasitism, parcel post, parity, peace, persistence, pipe roll, pliancy, poise, polarity, post, post day, proportion, proportionality, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, reconcilement, reconciliation, record, recording, register, registered mail, registry, regularity, relativity, relic, remains, reply, resemblance, response, roll, rolls, roster, rota, rural delivery, rural free delivery, sameness, saprophytism, scroll, sea mail, seapost, self-consistency, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, semblance, shapeliness, sharing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, simultaneity, social intercourse, solidarity, speaking, special delivery, special handling, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, stability, steadfastness, steadiness, strictness, surface mail, symbiosis, symmetricalness, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, synergy, synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, table, talking, tally, team spirit, telepathy, timing, token, touch, trace, traditionalism, traffic, trilateral symmetry, truck, two-way communication, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, united action, unity, unruffledness, vestige

ROGET THESAURUS

Correspondence

Correspondence

N correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux, chit, chitty, letter card, picture post card, postal, card, despatch, dispatch, bulletin, these presents, rescript, rescription, post, epistolary, furor scribendi.

Similarity

N similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance, affinity, approximation, parallelism, agreement, analogy, analogicalness, correspondence, homoiousia, parity, connaturalness, connaturality, brotherhood, family likeness, alliteration, rhyme, pun, repetition, sameness, uniformity, isogamy, analogue, the like, match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister, one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum, Arcades ambo, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne, gens de meme famille, parallel, simile, type, image, photograph, close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance, similar, resembling, like, alike, twin, analogous, analogical, parallel, of a piece, such as, so, homoiousian, connatural, congener, allied to, akin to, approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like, a show of, mock, pseudo, simulating, representing, exact, lifelike, faithful, true to nature, true to life, the very image, the very picture of, for all the world like, comme deux gouttes d'eau, as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare, instar omnium, cast in the same mold, ridiculously like, as if, so to speak, as it were, as if it were, quasi, just as, veluti in speculum, et sic de similibus, tel maitre tel valet, tel pere tel fils, like master, like servant, like father, like son, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, a chip off the old block.

Agreement

N agreement, accord, accordance, unison, harmony, concord, concordance, concert, understanding, mutual understanding, conformity, conformance, uniformity, consonance, consentaneousness, consistency, congruity, congruence, keeping, congeniality, correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union, fitness, aptness, relevancy, pertinence, pertinencey, sortance, case in point, aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility, cognation, adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation, reconciliation, reconcilement, assimilation, consent, concurrence, cooperation, right man in the right place, very thing, quite the thing, just the thing, agreeing, suiting, in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial, coherent, becoming, harmonious reconcilable, conformable, in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with at one with, of one mind, of a piece, consistent, compatible, proportionate, commensurate, on all fours, apt, apposite, pertinent, pat, to the point, to the purpose, happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible, fit adapted, in loco, a propos, appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous, deft, meet, at home, in one's proper element, a propos of, pertinently, rem acu tetigisti, if the shoe fits, wear it, the cap fits, auxilia humilia firma consensus facit, discers concordia.


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