The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Consilience \Con*sil"i*ence\, n. [con- + salire to leap.]
   Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.
   [1913 Webster]

         The consilience of inductions takes place when one
         class of facts coincides with an induction obtained
         from another different class.            --Whewell.
   [1913 Webster] Consimilitude