connascence
/kəˈnæsəns/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The birth of two or more things at the same time; A simultaneous coming into being.
Obsolete; Uncountable
noun
The state of being born into the same family, race, or group; a commonality of heritage or birthright.
Uncountable
noun
A relationship between two or more elements of software in which changing one necessitates changing the others in order to maintain overall correctness; a metric for such a relationship.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In Mrs Craigie I take always an especial interest. She, and dramatist, and I, as dramatic critic, saw the light simultaneously; and our connascence has insired me with a sentimental wish that she should do great things."
- "[…] and as a connascence of date it may be mentioned that he laid Kirby's foundation-stone in 1570."
- "It should be observed that the connascence (sahajanma) [Sanskrit सहजन्मा (sahajanmā)] of Father-essence and Mother-essence, the "two forms" of Brahman, though metaphorically spoken of as "birth" (janma), is not a sexual-begetting […]"
- "No: had not Esther been involved in the edict against the Jews, by her connascence and her religious profession, Mordecai might have pleaded in vain for her perilous interference."
- "Both sprung from Fraud— of common parentage. Yes, they are kin, and may connascence boast,— The Masons gaining what the Jesuits lost."
- "we, the thousand and one members of the great Smith Family, residing in the "real commercial city of New-York," ramous as we are, have risen as one man, to assert our connascence, to proclaim our unity, and rejoice in the interchange of fraternal sympathies."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: con