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What is another word for Supervening?

Pronunciation: [sˈuːpəvˌɛnɪŋ] (IPA)

Supervening refers to something that occurs as an unexpected or additional development, typically after certain circumstances have already been established. Synonyms for supervening include emerging, occurring, happening, arising, materializing, transpiring, and taking place. Another synonym for supervening is subsequent, which suggests that the event happened after a previous occurrence. Other related words include incidental, coincidental, and secondary, which suggest that the event was unforeseen and not a part of the original plan. In essence, supervening refers to an event that has happened without prior expectation, and there are a variety of synonyms that can be used to describe it.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Supervening

I have always been opposed to those conditions; first, because they are unusual, unnecessary and dangerous; unusual, because no city can be named permitting such a nuisance; unnecessary, because one track, or, to be liberal, two tracks, with spurs to the warehouses on the west and the wholesale or commission houses on the east, where the conditions permit it, would be ample, under the control of an intelligent company or management, for all the purposes of trade and commerce; dangerous, as experience has shown: the killed and injured on this interlocked system, intensified by Supervening and dense fogs, speak only by groans and death-knells.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
They were intended for the Pantheon of Paris, but, the age of reason Supervening, they were not sent.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black
At the end of the straggling village stands the church with its square tower, a lofty grey stone building, with bits of fine decorated architecture about it, but much of churchwarden Gothic Supervening.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes

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