a collection of items or parts in one mass; assemblage; aggregation; heap: From the airplane the town resembled a congeries of tiny boxes.
Origin: 1610–20; < L: a heap, equiv. to conger- (s. of congerere to collect, heap up, equiv. to con-con-+ gerere to bear, carry) + -iēs n. suffix; cf. rabies, series
[kon-jeer-eez, kon-juh-reez] 
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