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concomitant

  • /kənˈkɒmɪtənt/ UK
  • /kənˈkɑmətənt/ Atlantic Canada, US
  • /kənˈkɒmətənt/ Canada, dialectal
  • /kənˈkɔmətənt/ Australia
  • /kənˈkɒmətənt/ New Zealand
  • [kənˈkɔ̟mətənt] New Zealand

Where it comes from

First attested 1607; from Middle French concomitant, from Latin concomitāns, the present participle of concomitor (“to accompany”), from con- (“together”) + comitor (“to accompany”), from comes (“companion”).

adjective

  1. not comparable Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent. It has therefore pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, and to the ideas which we receive from them, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure, […]

    Similar: accompanying, adjoining, attendant, incidental

  2. not comparable Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action is occurring simultaneously to the primary action of the statement.

noun concomitants

  1. Something happening or existing at the same time. The reflection, that but the next day was to transport her far from London, had, in chasing distrust, with its natural concomitants, restraint and reserve, given a sweet and placid composure to her demeanour.

    Similar: accompaniment, co-occurrence

  2. An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.

Similar: divariant

Thesaurus

noun

Similar: divariant

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adj following as a consequence

Españolconcomitante
한국어수반(隨伴)되는 subandoeneun
中文併發的 /并发的 bìngfā de
हिन्दीआनुषंगिक ānuṣaṅgik, सहगामी sahgāmī, सहवर्ती sahvartī
Portuguêsconcomitante
Françaisconcomitant
Deutschdamit einhergehend, konkomitant
Italianoconcomitante
Ελληνικάσυνακόλουθος synakólouthos
Русскийсопу́тствующий sopútstvujuščij

noun Something happening or existing at the same time

DeutschBegleiterscheinung

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@misc{concomitant_2026,
  title = {concomitant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/concomitant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}