eventuation

English

Etymology

From Latin ēventus (“an event, happening”) +‎ -ation, equivalent to eventuate +‎ -ion.

Noun

eventuation (countable and uncountable, plural eventuations)

1. The act of eventuating or happening as a result;
   • 1978, E. P. P. Thompson, Poverty of Theory, page 48:

     And yet there is one sense in which the past improves upon the present, for "history" remains its own laboratory of process and eventuation.

   • 2012, Ephraim Nissan, Computer Applications for Handling Legal Evidence, Police Investigation and Case Argumentation, page 438:

     The proposition on the left side (if eventuated) would motivate the eventuation of the proposition on the right side.

   • 2013, W.M. Reisman, The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-first Century:

     These intellectual constructs of alternative futures serve to indicate what steps should be taken to increase the probability of the eventuation of a preferred future while minimizing the likelihood of the eventuation of the dystopias .

2. A final result or outcome; an eventual occurrence.
   • 1876, Herman Ludolph Prior, Overmatched:

     For the present, at all events, he must content himself with the tangible results he had already obtained; deuputing to some good genius who appeared to be interested in his welfare, the eventuation of his more dazzling hopes.

   • 1887, John Robert Irelan, The Republic:

     I feel particularly happy in being able to communicate to you the fortunate eventuation of my expedition to the Tallapoosa .

   • 2013, Martin Heidegger, The Event, page 138:

     To the eventuation there unfolds the uniqueness of the essence of the human being, as that essence is understood with respect to the history of beyng.

   • 2013, Nicholas Rescher, Process Philosophical Deliberations, page 62:

     Eventuations are terminations (completions) rather than parts of nature's processes.