Inherence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inherence \In*her"ence\, Inherency \In*her"en*cy\, n. [Cf. F.
     inh['e]rence.]
     The state of inhering; permanent existence in something;
     innateness; inseparable and essential connection. --Jer.
     Taylor.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inherence
       n : the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain
           [syn: {immanence}, {immanency}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "inherence":
     accessibility, actual presence, availability, being here,
     being there, essentiality, existence, fundamentality, hereness,
     immanence, immediacy, inbeing, indigenousness, indwelling,
     indwellingness, innateness, innerness, internality, intrinsicality,
     inwardness, nonobjectivity, occurrence, physical presence,
     presence, spiritual presence, subjectivity, thereness, ubiety,
     whereness