Attendant vs Concomitant - What's the difference?
attendant | concomitant |
One who attends; one who works with or watches something.
Going with; associated; concomitant.
* Sir Walter Scott
(legal) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.
* (John Locke)
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 41:
Something happening or existing at the same time.
* 1970 , , Bantam Books , pg.93:
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 301:
An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.
Concomitant is a synonym of attendant.
As nouns the difference between attendant and concomitant
is that attendant is one who attends; one who works with or watches something while concomitant is something happening or existing at the same time.As adjectives the difference between attendant and concomitant
is that attendant is going with; associated; concomitant while concomitant is accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.attendant
English
Alternative forms
* attendaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.
Adjective
(en adjective)- They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.
- The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion.
- the widow attendant to the heir
- (Cowell)
See also
* part and parcel ----concomitant
English
Adjective
(-)- It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure.
- 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, incidentalNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
