supervenience

English

Etymology

From supervenient +‎ -ence.

Noun

supervenience (usually uncountable, plural superveniences)

1. (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

Related terms

• convenience
• supervene
• supervenient