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Adherence vs Concordance - What's the difference?

adherence | concordance |

As nouns the difference between adherence and concordance

is that adherence is adherence while concordance is agreement; accordance; consonance.

adherence

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

  • A close physical union of two objects.
  • Faithful support for some cause.
  • (medicine) An extent to which a patient continues an agreed treatment plan.

    • See also

    * compliance

    concordance

    English

    (wikipedia concordance)

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • agreement; accordance; consonance
  • * (rfdate)
    • Contrasts, and yet concordances .
  • (grammar, obsolete) concord; agreement.
  • An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
  • * c. 1857 , (Thomas Macaulay), "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica ,
    • His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
  • (computational linguistics) a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.