coexistentadj.n.
/kəʊɛɡˈzɪstənt/ A. adj.
Existing together or in conjunction; coexisting; contemporaneous.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective]
altogether?c1400
concurrent1495
contemporana1500
unison1582
coincident1598
coetaneal1614
coactivea1616
contemporal1621
synchronisticalc1624
coetanean1625
coetaneous1649
coinstantanean1652
synchronical1652
simultal1654
contemporary1656
contemporaneous1659
simultaneousa1660
coevous1660
synchronal1660
coexistent1662
implicit1662
synchronous1669
coexistinga1676
synchronistic1685
coeval1714
contemporany1721
synchronizinga1727
joint1765
coinstantaneous1768
consentaneous1775
coinciding1786
conterminating1805
synchronic1833
coincidental1845
parallel1859
homochronous1876
monochronic1905
co-occurring1951
co-occurrent1954
the world > existence and causation > existence > [adjective] > existent or existing > coexistent or coexisting
consistent1651
coexistent1662
coexistinga1676
twin-existent1860
compresent1912
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. ii. §2 He makes Semiramis coexistent with the Siege of Troy.
1863 E. V. Neale Analogy Thought & Nature 39 Relations between combinations thought of as coexistent or as successive.
1878 H. P. Gurney Crystallogr. 30 Every group of such coexistent faces is called a crystallographic form.
B. n.
That which coexists with something else; a concomitant.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > coexistence > that which coexists with something else
coexistent1846
1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) iii. xxii. §4 Every property of an object has an invariable coexistent which he called its Form.
1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 34 Gorgeous envelopments..were almost necessarily the coexistents of elaborate writing.
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