Rapport \Rap*port"\ (r[a^]p*p[=o]rt"; F. r[.a]`p[^o]r"), n. [F.,
fr. rapporter to bring again or back, to refer; pref. re- re-
+ apporter to bring, L. apportare. Cf. Report.]
Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord.
[1913 Webster]
'T is obvious what rapport there is between the
conceptions and languages in every country. --Sir W.
Temple.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
rapport
n 1: relation of mutual understanding or trust and agreement
between people [syn: resonance]
2: a feeling of sympathetic understanding [syn: compatibility]
3: sympathetic compatibility [syn: accord]
WordNet (r) 2.0
156 Moby Thesaurus words for "rapport":
accord, accordance, addition, adjunct, affability, affairs,
affiliation, affinity, agape, agreeability, agreeableness,
agreement, alliance, amenity, amiability, amicability, amity,
an in, approximation, assemblage, assent, association, bliss,
blissfulness, bond, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, camaraderie,
caritas, cement of friendship, charity, chorus, closeness,
coherence, coincidence, combination, communion, community,
community of interests, compatibility, complaisance, concert,
concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity,
congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, connectedness,
connection, consistency, consonance, consort, contiguity,
contrariety, cooperation, cordiality, correspondence, dealings,
deduction, disjunction, empathy, enjoyableness, equivalence,
esprit, esprit de corps, favor, favorable regard,
feeling of identity, felicitousness, fellow feeling, fellowship,
filiation, frictionlessness, friendly relations, geniality,
good graces, good terms, good understanding, good vibes,
good vibrations, goodliness, goodness, goodwill, graciousness,
happy family, harmoniousness, harmony, homology, identity,
intercourse, intersection, intimacy, junction, kinship, liaison,
like-mindedness, link, linkage, linking, love, mellifluousness,
mellowness, mutual attraction, mutual regard, mutual understanding,
mutuality, nearness, niceness, oneness, overlap, parallelism,
peace, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness,
pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasurefulness,
propinquity, proximity, rapprochement, reciprocity, regard,
relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, respect,
self-consistency, sharing, similarity, solidarity, sweetness,
symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, tally,
team spirit, tie, tie-in, timing, understanding, uniformity, union,
unison, unisonance, unity, welcomeness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accord, compatibility, resonance
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