Concomitant vs Whereas - What's the difference?
concomitant | whereas |
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.
(obsolete) Where (that).
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iii:
In contrast; whilst on the contrary.
It being the fact that; inasmuch as
* United States Articles of Confederation
A clause, as in legal documents, stating whereas.
* 1883 , The Insurance Law Journal
* 1908 , United States Congress, Hearings beginning March 9, 1908-April 30, 1908
* 1961 , Aluminum Workers' International Union, Biennial Convention
* 1973 , Canadian Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Proceedings
As an adjective concomitant
is accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.As a noun concomitant
is something happening or existing at the same time.As a conjunction whereas is
.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-occurrencewhereas
English
Alternative forms
* (rare)Adverb
(-)- And home she came, whereas her mother blynd / Sate in eternall night [...].
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- He came first in the race whereas his brother came last.
- And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union.
Usage notes
* Whereas is used in the second sense principally in legal documents, formal resolutions of corporate bodies, and the like.See also
* thereabout, thereafter, thereagainst, thereat, thereby, therefor, therefore, therefrom, therein, thereinafter, thereof, thereon, thereto, theretofore, thereunder, thereunto, thereupon, therewith, therewithal * hereabout, hereafter, hereat, hereby, herein, hereinafter, hereinbefore, hereinto, hereof, hereon, hereto, heretofore, hereunto, hereunder, hereupon, herewith * whereabouts, whereas, whereafter, whereat, whereby, wherefore, wherefrom, wherein, whereinto, whereof, whereon, whereto, whereunder, whereupon, wherever, wherewith, wherewithalNoun
(es)- ...the promise is stated after a whereas , though the promise is the very gist of the action, yet, such a count so framed, will be held good on demurrer.
- It had a page or so of whereases .
- I feel it is most unfortunate that some of the preambles, prefaces, whereases or whatever you want to call it, are put before motions or before resolutions...
- If it is the desire of any Lodge on the floor that the whereases that were listed in their original Resolution be quoted by the Chairman or by the Secretary...