Concomitant vs Accompany - What's the difference?
concomitant | accompany |
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.
To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
* 1804 :
* 1581 , (Philip Sidney), An Apology of Poetry, or a Defense of Poesy , Book I:
* 1979 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), The History of England :
To supplement with; add to.
* , chapter=5
, title= (senseid)(music) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
(music) To perform an accompanying part next to another instrument.
(obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.
* (rfdate) Holland:
(obsolete) To cohabit (with).
(obsolete) To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.
As an adjective concomitant
is accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.As a noun concomitant
is something happening or existing at the same time.As a verb accompany is
to go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.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.
Synonyms
* (a concomitant event or situation) accompaniment, co-occurrenceaccompany
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The Persian dames, […] / In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
- Men say that they will drive away one another, […] and not accompany together.
