congruent

Definition

Corresponding in character; congruous.

Etymology

From Middle English congruent, from Latin congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”).

Example Sentences

• "In the course of this work it was borne in on me, increasingly, that the notion of I-schemes, schemes of selving, as the basic structures of our dynamic selves is congruent with developing directions of inquiry both within psychoanalysis and outside it."