ACCIDENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accidence mean? 

• ACCIDENCE (noun)
  The noun ACCIDENCE has 1 sense:

1. the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words

  Familiarity information: ACCIDENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCIDENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

accidence; inflectional morphology

Hypernyms ("accidence" is a kind of...):

morphology (studies of the rules for forming admissible words)