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occurrent

/əˈkʌɹənt/

occurrent adjective: current, actual, occurring.

Adjective

occurrent (comparative more occurrent, superlative most occurrent)

  1. Current, actual, occurring.
  2. Currently or actively present in the mind.
    • I hold the occurrent belief that I'm writing this sentence
    • A clear example, although one drawn from a different situation, of unformulated yet occurrent belief would be that in which a clerk unrolls paper to wrap a parcel: there comes a moment when he believes that the length unrolled is enough.1951, Curt John Ducasse, Nature, mind, and death, La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company, page 333

Noun

occurrent (plural occurrents)

  1. An event, something that occurs.
    • the only comfort (saith Jovius) he had to ease his melancholy thoughts, was to hear news, and to listen after those ordinary occurrents, which were brought him cum primis, by letters or otherwise, out of the remotest parts of Europe.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
  2. One who comes to meet another.

occurrent meaning in Urdu

occurrent in Urdu

واقع, وارد

Examples of occurrent in a sentence

  • In such a case, my belief that the person I will meet is named Robert Barchi is clearly occurrent.2016, Douglas N. Husak, Ignorance of Law: A Philosophical Inquiry, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196:
  • One could imagine, for example, that an occurrent belief (e.g. that I'm allergic to apples) would trigger a dispositional desire (not to get an allergic crisis).2020 November 13, B. Brodaric, F. Neuhaus, Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (FOIS...

Forms of occurrent

Adjective
comparativemore occurrent
superlativemost occurrent
Noun
pluraloccurrents

Origin of occurrent

Borrowed from Middle French occurrent and its source, Latin occurrēns.

Words formed from occurrent

Words that rhyme with occurrent

Questions about occurrent

What does occurrent mean?
Occurrent means current, actual, occurring.
What is occurrent in Urdu?
Occurrent in Urdu is واقع, وارد. See Occurrent meaning in Urdu.
How do you use occurrent in a sentence?
In such a case, my belief that the person I will meet is named Robert Barchi is clearly occurrent.
What part of speech is occurrent?
Occurrent can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce occurrent?
Occurrent is pronounced /əˈkʌɹənt/ (UK).

Words near occurrent in the dictionary

  1. occurred
  2. occurrence
  3. occurrence time
  4. occurrence times
  5. occurrences
  6. occurrent
  7. occurrential
  8. occurrentially
  9. occurrently
  10. occurrents
  11. occurres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: occurrent (page history and authors); occurrent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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