contingence
contingence · contingences
Contact; touchingContact; touching.
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)Contact; touching.
(countable, uncountable)Contingency.
More definitions
- a possible event or occurrence or result
Origin
Borrowed from Latin contingentia (whence con- + and -ence), from contingēns, present passiBorrowed from Latin contingentia (whence con- + and -ence), from contingēns, present passive participle of contingō (“to make contact with, to be touching”).
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Forms
plural: contingences| Singular | contingence |
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Synonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- a possible event or occurrence or result:eventualitycontingency
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable