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Concomitant vs Antecedent - What's the difference?

concomitant | antecedent |

As adjectives the difference between concomitant and antecedent

is that concomitant is accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent while antecedent is earlier, either in time or order.

As nouns the difference between concomitant and antecedent

is that concomitant is something happening or existing at the same time while antecedent is in “The policeman asked the boy what he was doing.”, the phrase “the boy” is the antecedent of the pronoun “he”.

concomitant

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.
  • * (John Locke)
  • It 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

    (en noun)
  • Something happening or existing at the same time.
  • * 1970 , , 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.
  • An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.
  • Synonyms

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

    antecedent

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Earlier, either in time or order.
  • an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood
    an antecedent cause
  • presumptive
  • an antecedent improbability

    Noun

    {{examples-right, sense=linguistics: expression referred to by pronoun, examples= * In “The policeman asked the boy what he was doing.”, the phrase “the boy” is the antecedent of the pronoun “he”. * In the sentence “I saw my girlfriend yesterday wearing her old jacket which is odd because she almost never wears it.”, the phrase “my girlfriend” is the antecedent of “her” and “old jacket” is the antecedent of “it”.}} (en noun)
  • Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
  • An ancestor.
  • (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
  • * Fowler
  • [W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who'' is appropriated to persons, so ''that'' should have been appropriated to things the antecedent of ''that is often personal.
  • *
  • One such condition can be formulated in terms of the
    c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16)
    below:
    (16)    C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS
            An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent
  • (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition.
  • (rfex)
  • (math) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a'' in the ratio ''a:b , the other being the consequent.
  • Synonyms

    * (something which precedes) precedent, precursor * (an ancestor) ascendant, ascendent, forebear, forefather, forerunner, predecessor, progenitor

    Antonyms

    * (in logic) consequent, (for sequents) succedent * (in linguistics) anaphor

    Holonyms

    * conditional * See

    See also

    * juxtaposition ----