supervenience
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From supervenient + -ence.
Noun
[edit]supervenience (usually uncountable, plural superveniences)
- (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