单词 | accidentality |
释义 | accidentalityn. The quality or fact of being accidental (in various senses). Cf. accidentalness n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] i-wonc1275 casec1300 adventurec1325 hap1340 accidencea1393 casualty1423 chefe1440 fortunityc1470 enchance?a1475 accidentc1485 chance1526 contingencec1530 lottery1570 casuality1574 chanceableness1581 contingency1623 fortuitiona1641 fortuitness1643 accidentalness1648 accidentality1651 fortuitousness1652 causelessnessa1660 temerity1678 fortuitya1747 spontaneity1751 felicity1809 accidentiality1814 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [noun] > unpredictability casualty1503 contingency1635 accidentalness1648 accidentality1651 uncalculableness1831 incalculableness1864 incalculability1873 unpredictability1878 flukiness1888 impredicability1906 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 168 In this only supposed Accidentality. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 127 Until the facts supporting this opinion of the accidentality of the awns be fairly brought forward, and fully established, we must consider it as a distinct species. 1831 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 147 I wish..to take from history it's accidentality, and from science it's fatalism. 1887 Chronicle (U.S.) 10 Mar. 113/1 We have already expressed our opinion in regard to the alleged accidentality of insane suicide. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xviii. 434 What more ideal refuge could there be than such a system would offer to spirits vexed by the muddiness and accidentality of the world of sensible things? 2003 F. L. Shults Reforming Theol. Anthropol. i. 23 This dialectical unity of substantiality and accidentality flows from Hegel's rejection of the hard distinction between form and content. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1651 |
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