Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being adventitious.
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- noun the
degree to which a thing isadventitious
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Examples
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To the extent to which the similarities become general, the warmth of the connection which they effect will have an element of coolness, a feeling in it of the adventitiousness of this very connection.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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