évidence

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin ēvidentia. A false friend of evidence.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /e.vi.dɑ̃s/
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

évidence f (plural évidences)

  1. obviousness, clearness
    Il faut se rendre à l’évidence.
    We must face the facts.
    C’est l’évidence même.
    It is completely obvious.
    Si vous êtes venu uniquement pour expliquer des évidences comme celles-là, vous feriez tout aussi bien de repartir.
    If you came just to state the obvious like this, you would do just as well to go home.

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