Contingency vs Accidence - What's the difference?
contingency | accidence |
(uncountable) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability.
(countable) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
(countable) An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if he or she does not fulfill the contract according to the specification.
(logic, countable) A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
(grammar) The accidents , of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
:(John Milton)
A book containing the first principles of grammar, and so of the rudiments of any subject or art.
The rudiments of any subject.
* James Russell Lowell
As nouns the difference between contingency and accidence
is that contingency is (uncountable) the quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability while accidence is (grammar) the accidents , of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.contingency
English
(wikipedia contingency)Noun
Synonyms
* (quality of happening by chance) possibility * See alsoAntonyms
* (quality of happening by chance) inevitability, impossibilityCoordinate terms
* (statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction) contradiction, tautologyDerived terms
* contingency planaccidence
English
Noun
(en noun)- Our best schools send every year to college boys who know their accidence reasonably, and in some cases admirably well
