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accidentia

accidentia is the plural of accidens.

Meaning of accidens

Noun

accidens (plural accidentia)

  1. Synonym of accident (“a property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive”).
    • An Accidens (or accident) of an individual, genus, or species is any attribute which is possessed by it, and which does not follow from, or form a part of, its comprehension. […] If, on the other hand, an accidens is sometimes present and sometimes absent in an individual, […]1886, Prasanna K. Roy, A Text-book of Deductive Logic: For the Use of Students, page 83
    Synonyms:
    accident

Questions about accidentia

What is accidentia the plural of?
Accidentia is the plural of accidens.

Words near accidentia in the dictionary

  1. accidentalness
  2. accidentals
  3. accidentaly
  4. accidentary
  5. accidented
  6. accidentia
  7. accidentily
  8. accidently
  9. accidentologist
  10. accidentologists
  11. accidentology

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