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coinhering

coinhering is the present participle and gerund of coinhere.

Meaning of coinhere

Verb

coinhere (third-person singular simple present coinheres, present participle coinhering, simple past and past participle coinhered)

  1. (intransitive) To inhere or exist together, as in one substance or as part of one another.
    • Our knowledge of mind and matter, as substances, is merely relative; they are known to us only in their qualities; and we can justify the postulation of two different substances, exclusively on the supposition of the incompatibility of the double series of phænomena to coinhere in one.a. 1857, William Hamilton, “Lecture XXIII. The Presentative Faculty.—I. Perception,—Was Reid a Natural Realist?”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and...

Questions about coinhering

What is coinhering the present participle and gerund of?
Coinhering is the present participle and gerund of coinhere.

Words near coinhering in the dictionary

  1. coinhabits
  2. coinhere
  3. coinhered
  4. coinherence
  5. coinheres
  6. coinhering
  7. coinherit
  8. coinheritance
  9. coinheritances
  10. coinherited
  11. coinheriting

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