entmoots

Noun

entmoot (plural entmoots)

1. A mythical form of consensus building without time constraints where all ideas and opinions of dissent are thoroughly considered and dwelt upon.
   • ‘The next day it was proclaimed that the Folkmoot for Judgement should be held on the morning following, for already five hundred of the headmen had come in, and that was by custom deemed the least number which might count as a full meeting of the Folk.’ A similar scene is described in chapter vii...2009 July 23, Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund Weiner, “Word Studies”, in The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary, illustrated, reprint edition, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 168