Concomitant vs Comorbid - What's the difference?
concomitant | comorbid |
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.
(medicine, of a disease or symptom) That occurs at the same time as another
* {{quote-book
, passage=Research shows that depression is often comorbid with other psychiatric and physical illnesses
* {{quote-book
, passage=They found that PTSD (50,3% men, 36.5% women), alcohol dependence (60.5% men, 8.1% women) and comorbid alcohol dependence and PTSD (69.6% men, 11.7% women) were common.
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, title=Mental Health Atlas 2005
, year=2005
}}
As adjectives the difference between concomitant and comorbid
is that concomitant is accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent while comorbid is that occurs at the same time as another.As a noun concomitant
is something happening or existing at the same time.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-occurrencecomorbid
English
Adjective
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