coinstantial
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From co- + instantial = co- + instance + -ial.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]coinstantial (not comparable)
- 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.
Coordinate terms
[edit]- coincidental (overlapping, but coincidental usually denotes noncausal correlation exclusively, whereas coinstantial can refer to both noncausal and causal relations)