Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Existing at the same time; coincident in duration.
- noun A thing existing at the same time or in immediate connection with another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Existing at the same time with another.
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- adjective
existing at the sametime as something else - noun That which coexists with another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective existing at the same time
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Examples
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The synthesis of the imagination in apprehension would only present to us each of these perceptions as present in the subject when the other is not present, and contrariwise; but would not show that the objects are coexistent, that is to say, that, if the one exists, the other also exists in the same time, and that this is necessarily so, in order that the perceptions may be capable of following each other reciprocally.
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
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That same year, the psychological profession adopted the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, a scale that measured masculinity and femininity as separate and coexistent within an individual.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Unrecognized sleep disorders are often a harbinger of coexistent anxiety and depression.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Sleepless Supernova: Propofol Lullabies In Neverland 2010
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Wotix is the closest he has yet come to a book that disperses that force of narrative momentum—that great strength of the novel as a mode—into a great swarm of indistinguishable coexistent characters and non-progressions.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 9: Winter’s Heart (2000) Adam Roberts 2010
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Wotix is the closest he has yet come to a book that disperses that force of narrative momentum—that great strength of the novel as a mode—into a great swarm of indistinguishable coexistent characters and non-progressions.
Archive 2010-05-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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Unrecognized sleep disorders are often a harbinger of coexistent anxiety and depression.
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Unrecognized sleep disorders are often a harbinger of coexistent anxiety and depression.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Sleepless Supernova: Propofol Lullabies In Neverland MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Either the existence of the same passion or interest in a majority at the same time must be prevented, or the majority, having such coexistent passion or interest, must be rendered, by their number and local situation, unable to concert and carry into effect schemes of oppression.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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I had a thesaurus program that used coexistent verb and -er noun forms followed by alteration of the noun, to produce ``birds gotta fly'' candidates, like reporters gotta announce announce-announcer=reporter
Transgender bathroom rights in New England. Ann Althouse 2009
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The two falsehoods are, the first that English is not entitled to give what form it chooses to foreign words that it has occasion to use; &the second, that it is better to have two or more forms coexistent than to talk of one thing by one name that all can understand.
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