"congruence" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe when two or more things are similar or in agreement with one another. For example, "The results of the experiment showed a high degree of congruence with the theoretical predictions."
Here there may be a happy congruence of society's need for more volunteers and the non-pecuniary benefits for individuals who step forward.
There may be a happy congruence of society's need for more volunteers and the non-pecuniary benefits for the individual Nesta, the innovation incubator and funder, sees greater involvement of volunteers in the provision of public services as a means of making them "people-powered".
I don't think such a rich congruence of ideas, of politics, of art, literature, music and revolutionary thinking has been repeated in recent centuries.
They compared this profit-maximising slant to their measure of the actual slant of each newspaper's coverage.They found a striking congruence between the two.
Japan and France are both highly developed countries, with a high level of technological and institutional congruence.
This congruence in language is hardly surprising, since the Blair and Clinton teams are a living advertisement for all those worthy programmes designed to promote cultural exchange between the young.
The relative social peace of 2009 may have been only the quiet before the storm.In 2010 there will be 60m more unemployed worldwide than in 2008Indeed, a congruence of calamities could prove politically tempestuous: a sharp rise in unemployment, increased poverty and inequality, weakened middle classes and high food prices in many countries.
This victory will help revive a venerable tradition of America's political culture, that of viewing congressional actions with a skeptical constitutional squint, searching for congruence with the Constitution's architecture of enumerated powers.
The divide is further widened as more Malays, who, constitutionally, are all Muslims, become religiously conservative.The Malaysian malaise stems from the congruence of two seemingly conflicting trends.
He has suggested a congruence between Christianity and European culture because both respect the individual; this implies that it is open to question, at best, whether Islam can bed down in Europe with equal success.
In the second book, dealing with "congruence" (which here does not mean, as it does today, "the same size and shape", but the property of figures filling the surface together with other regular polygons – on the plane or, to build closed geometric solids – hence, in space), Kepler made new mathematical discoveries working with tessellations.
