Synonyms for confluence
ˈkɒn flu əns; -flʌkscon·flu·ence

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1. confluencenoun

   Synonyms:
   conflux

2. confluencenoun

   The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river.

   We encountered an abandoned boat at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

   Synonyms:
   conflux

3. confluencenoun

   The act of combining which occurs at the place where rivers and the like meet.

   The confluence of the rivers produced a great rush of water.

   Synonyms:
   conflux

4. confluencenoun

   A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.

   The confluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project.

   Synonyms:
   conflux

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. confluence

   Synonyms:
   conflux, meeting, concourse, convergence, concurrence

   Antonyms:
   reflux, refluence, dispersion, overflow, diffluence

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1. confluence, meetingnoun

   a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)

   "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers"

   Synonyms:
   concourse, meeting, encounter, conflux, merging, get together, coming together, group meeting

2. confluence, conflux, mergingnoun

   a flowing together

   Synonyms:
   conflux, coming together, meeting, concourse, merging

3. concourse, confluencenoun

   a coming together of people

   Synonyms:
   meeting, conflux, throng, multitude, concourse, merging

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1. confluencenoun

   Synonyms:
   meeting, junction, conflux, union, flowing together

2. confluencenoun

   Synonyms:
   concourse, multitude, crowd, collection, throng, army, host, swarm

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1. List of paraphrases for "confluence":

   junction, convergence

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1. Keith Smith:

   We see this confluence of motive, where what looks like some recycled criminal malware has been upgraded in a sophisticated way, a lot of people suspect that that's Russia’s attempt to force us as analysts to ascribe to a criminal organization what is in fact the actions of a nation state – Russia.

2. John Ing:

   Volatility is now the name of the game, there is a confluence of factors at work, both geopolitical, energy prices, interest rates, all this is leading to the expectations of increased volatility.

3. The Biden administration:

   Simply put, delaying the Standard would likely cost many lives per day, in addition to large numbers of hospitalizations, other serious health effects, and tremendous expenses, that is a confluence of harms of the highest order.

4. Dan Cooper:

   It’s really hard to point to one specific thing, and when you look at the confluence of factors, Black folks haven’t been centered in policy or they are centered in wrong ways.

5. Annie Clark:

   Our country is facing a confluence of the worse pandemic hitting our country in a century, an economic depression and a killing that laid bare the racial injustice that still taints our country, right now, Sen. Collins is focused on doing her job.