subjacencyn.

1820 Edinb. Philos. Jrnl. 2 235 The terms Superimposition and Subjacency..involve contradictory appearances, which can only be reconciled, on a supposition that the edges of strata may be variously opposed to two different kinds of surfaces.

1887 Andover Rev. Jan. 42 She might find her first supraterrestrial experience in some dim subjacency of aromatic spiritual forest, in which she might smoke a spiritual pipe in peace.

1908 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 509 The springs..are numerous and copious, partly because of the thickness and texture of the formation, also because of its subjacency to horizons that carry water freely.

2001 T. Murphy in B. Rennie Changing Relig. Worlds iv. 40 Spirit, for Eliade.., is the subiectum and substancia of history, that which by its ‘subjacency’ gives unity, even identity, to all of the various forms of difference that appear in time.