evenemential
evenemential adjective: pertaining to events, as directly experienced, as opposed to ideas about them.
Adjective
evenemential (comparative more evenemential, superlative most evenemential)
- Pertaining to events, as directly experienced, as opposed to ideas about them.
- Rather than finding that thought "disturbing," Clausewitz would suggest that any science of war that left nothing to chance would founder as the "individual in history" made the decisions that are the stuff of "evenemential," or narrative, military history, of the action-reaction phenomena of...1984, Ronald Hoffman, Peter J. Albert, Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution, page 218
- Unlike evenemential temporality, which captures historicity in real time, we are dealing with a deferred temporality, the recording of an event that has already happened.2015, Flavia Santoianni, The Concept of Time in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy, →ISBN, page 178
Forms of evenemential
| comparative | more evenemential |
|---|---|
| superlative | most evenemential |
Origin of evenemential
From French événementiel.
Questions about evenemential
- What does evenemential mean?
- Evenemential means pertaining to events, as directly experienced, as opposed to ideas about them.
- What part of speech is evenemential?
- Evenemential is an adjective.
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