coinstantial

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English

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Etymology

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From co- +‎ instantial = co- +‎ instance +‎ -ial.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌkoʊɪnˈstænʃəl/

Adjective

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coinstantial (not comparable)

  1. Co-occurring in a unitary instance; being coinstantiated.
    • 1883, Napoleon Bonaparte Wolfe, Startling Facts in Modern Spiritualism[1], retrieved 2021-05-01, page 186:
      The sounds grew louder and louder, passing from one side of the room to the other with increasing celerity, and seemingly coinstantial, until the horn banged and jarred every-where within six feet of the medium, and about two feet from the circle, making almost a continuous dinning racket for a minute or two.
    • 2001, Nuel D. Belnap, Michael Perloff, Ming Xu, Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World[2], →ISBN, retrieved 2021-05-01, page 263:
      In Figure 9.2, Q is settled true at m₀ and m₁, and settled false at m₂, all of which are coinstantial.

Coordinate terms

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  • coincidental (overlapping, but coincidental usually denotes noncausal correlation exclusively, whereas coinstantial can refer to both noncausal and causal relations)
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