Concomitant

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /kÉ™nˈkÉ’mɪtÉ™nt/
• US IPA: /kÉ™nˈkɑːmÉ™tÉ™nt/

Origin

First attested 1607; from French concomitant, from concomitāns, the present participle of Latin concomitor ("I accompany"), from con- ("together") + comitor ("I accompany"), from comes ("companion").

Full definition of concomitant

Adjective

1. Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.
• John LockeIt has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure.
• 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 41:The new technology on which super-industrialism is based, much of it blue-printed in American research laboratories, brings with it an inevitable acceleration of change in society and a concomitant speed-up of the pace of individual life as well.

Synonyms

• (following as a consequence) accompanying, adjoining, attendant, incidental

Noun

1. Something happening or existing at the same time.
• 1970, Alvin Toffler, , Bantam Books, pg.93:The declining commitment to place is thus related not to mobility per se, but to a concomitant of mobility- the shorter duration of place relationships.
• 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 301:It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream.

Synonyms

• (a concomitant event or situation) accompaniment, co-occurrence

Related terms

• concomitance
• concomitantly
• concomitate