supervenient
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adjective \-ˈvē-nyənt\Definition of SUPERVENIENT
: coming or occurring as something additional, extraneous, or unexpected
See Examples of SUPERVENIENT
- <he painted his landscapes for self-fulfillment, regarding financial rewards as supervenient to his reason for doing them>
Origin of SUPERVENIENT
Latin supervenient-, superveniens, present participle of supervenire
First Known Use: 1594
Related to SUPERVENIENT
- Synonyms
- accidental, adventitious, alien, extraneous, external, foreign, extrinsic
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