inherence

American  

[in-heer-uhns, -her-] / ɪnˈhɪər əns, -ˈhɛr- /

noun

1. the state or fact of inhering or being inherent.

2. Philosophy.  the relation of an attribute to its subject.

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inherence British  

/ -ˈhɛr-, ɪnˈhɪərəns /

noun

1. the state or condition of being inherent

2. metaphysics the relation of attributes, elements, etc, to the subject of which they are predicated, esp if they are its essential constituents

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Other Word Forms

• noninherence noun

Etymology

Origin of inherence

From the Medieval Latin word inhaerentia, dating back to 1570–80. See inherent, -ence

Example Sentences

Here, a psychological principle called the “inherence bias” comes into play.

From Scientific American

In the Ontology this method is employed to determine what in reality corresponds to the empirical conceptions of substance and cause, or rather of inherence and change.

From Project Gutenberg

In any line, however, a strain of greatness or of other inherence descends in alternating succession, now in the female, now in the male line; receding now into the potential, and then evolving in development.

From Project Gutenberg

Absolute being possesses absolute unity without any doubt, as it possesses absolute intelligence; but, once more, absolute unity without a real subject of inherence is destitute of all reality.

From Project Gutenberg

The hypothesis of inherence gives an inadequate account of the dependence of an attribute on a substance, and is a kind of half-way house between separation and predication.

From Project Gutenberg