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INHERENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inherency mean?
• INHERENCY (noun)
The noun INHERENCY has 1 sense:
1. the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic
Familiarity information: INHERENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
inherence; inherency
Context example:
the inherence of polysemy in human language
Hypernyms ("inherency" is a kind of...):
presence (the state of being present; current existence)
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