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Occurrence vs Occurrent - What's the difference?

occurrence | occurrent |

As nouns the difference between occurrence and occurrent

is that occurrence is actual instance where a situation arises while occurrent is an event, something that occurs.

As an adjective occurrent is

current, actual, occurring.

occurrence

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Actual instance where a situation arises.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}

    Usage notes

    * This word is often misspelled occurence'', ''occurrance'' or ''occurance .

    occurrent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Current, actual, occurring.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An event, something that occurs.
  • *, II.2.4:
  • *:the only comfort (saith Jovius) he had to ease his melancholy thoughts, was to hear news, and to listen after those ordinary occurrents , which were brought him cum primis , by letters or otherwise, out of the remotest parts of Europe.
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