supervenient

/ (ˌsuːpəˈviːnɪənt) /


adjective
  1. supervening

  2. philosophy (of a property) inseparable from the other properties of something. Two objects may be identical except that one is red and the other not, but they cannot be identical except that one is beautiful and the other not; beauty is thus a supervenient property

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