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supervenience

supervenience noun: 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.

Noun

supervenience (usually uncountable, plural superveniences)

  1. (usually) 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.
    Synonyms:
    supervention

supervenience meaning in Tamil

supervenience in Tamil

அடிநிலைப் பண்புகள்

Synonyms of supervenience

Forms of supervenience

pluralsuperveniences

Origin of supervenience

From supervenient + -ence.

Questions about supervenience

What does supervenience mean?
Supervenience means 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.
What is supervenience in Tamil?
Supervenience in Tamil is அடிநிலைப் பண்புகள். See Supervenience meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is supervenience?
Supervenience is a noun.
What is the plural of supervenience?
The plural of supervenience is superveniences.

Words near supervenience in the dictionary

  1. superveillances
  2. supervene
  3. supervened
  4. supervenes
  5. superveneth
  6. supervenience
  7. superveniences
  8. superveniency
  9. supervenient
  10. supervening
  11. supervening cause

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supervenience (page history and authors); supervenience (Tamil 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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