coinstantial

English

Etymology

From co- +‎ instantial = co- +‎ instance +‎ -ial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoʊɪnˈstænʃəl/

Adjective

coinstantial (not comparable)

1. Co-occurring in a unitary instance; being coinstantiated.
   • 1883, Napoleon Bonaparte Wolfe, Startling Facts in Modern Spiritualism‎^[1], retrieved 2021-05-01, page 186:

     The sounds grew louder and louder, passing from one side of the room to the other with increasing celerity, and seemingly coinstantial, until the horn banged and jarred every-where within six feet of the medium, and about two feet from the circle, making almost a continuous dinning racket for a minute or two.

   • 2001, Nuel D. Belnap, Michael Perloff, Ming Xu, Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World‎^[2], →ISBN, retrieved 2021-05-01, page 263:

     In Figure 9.2, Q is settled true at m₀ and m₁, and settled false at m₂, all of which are coinstantial.

Coordinate terms

• coincidental (overlapping, but coincidental usually denotes noncausal correlation exclusively, whereas coinstantial can refer to both noncausal and causal relations)

Related terms

• coinstantiate
• coinstantiated
• coinstantiating
• coinstantiation