concomitant
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8.9
- noun
- /kənˈkɒmɪtənt/
- Formal
:
concomitante
- The increase in pollution is a concomitant of rapid urbanization.
- necessary concomitants
- social concomitants
- physical concomitants
Examples
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In many nations, hard physical labor is a direct concomitant of survival.
Academic text (2001) -
The next logical step would be to examine the behavioral concomitants of athlete vs. jock identity.
Academic text (2009) -
But all that could be understood as a natural concomitant of age.
Fiction book (1990) -
Hierarchy, the natural concomitant of freedom, is seen as undemocratic.
Blog text (3) -
In political terms, the concomitants of state capitalism were also mixed in quality.
Academic text (1992) -
Memory here is an essentially nonlinear process, and forgetting is its necessary concomitant.
Academic text (2000) -
Bureaucrats who had come to enjoy the power concomitant with the authority to implement controls did not hesitate to exploit the situation.
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Concomitant with ethical issues of macroallocation is the problem of resource constraints.
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Concomitant with state-led regional expansion of commercial fisheries has been nearly threefold growth of the local fishing population.
Academic text (1999) -
For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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6.1
An event or result that happens at the same time as something else
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5.2
Something that is present at the same time as another thing
2
4.4
Something that happens at the same time as another thing
Antonyms
How Connected
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4.1
- Formal
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8.9
93
4.6
131
3.0
426
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
concomitant = con + comit + ant
Although the segments correspond to Latin con- + comit + -ant, the root 'comit' is not a productive standalone English base and the word is a borrowed formation, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from the parts.
Etymology
Concomitant as a noun comes from Latin con- 'with' and comitatus 'company', like the English words company and companion. A concomitant is a thing or event that 'comes with' another, so it happens at the same time or in connection with it.