supervenience

English

Etymology

From supervenient +‎ -ence.

Noun

supervenience (usually uncountable, plural superveniences)

  1. (philosophy) The state or quality of being supervenient, of being in a dependency relationship such that an object with the supervened properties must also have the supervening properties.
    Synonym: supervention
    Hyponym: superdupervenience
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