connascence

1. (obsolete) The birth of two or more things at the same time; A simultaneous coming into being.Examples: "In Mrs Craigie I take always an especial interest. She, and dramatist, and I, as dramatic critic, saw the light simultaneously; and our connascence has insired me with a sentimental wish that she should do great things."; "[…] and as a connascence of date it may be mentioned that he laid Kirby's foundation-stone in 1570."; "It should be observed that the connascence (sahajanma) [Sanskrit सहजन्मा (sahajanmā)] of Father-essence and Mother-essence, the "two forms" of Brahman, though metaphorically spoken of as "birth" (janma), is not a sexual-begetting […]"obsoleteuncountable

2. (obsolete) The act of growing or developing together.Examples: "By turns, and occasionally as it were by spontaneous connascence, were reflected on her speaking countenance, as on the clear and smooth surface of a bright mirror, the quick intelligence of a clever woman and the touching simplicity of an unsophisticated child, the vigorous energy of a heroine and the fascinating playfulness of a little fairy, the depth of mind that can penetrate and analyse everything and the inquisitiveness of heart to which all sensations are novel and interesting."; "Wherefore, some animals continue to retain life after being divided: but, nevertheless, will all of them subsist in capacity when they may be one thing, and that which is continuous by nature, but not by force, or by connascence, that is, growth in conjunction with something else; for a thing of this kind is mutilation."; "Socialization of the law by federal statutes reflected by the development of legal principles in connascence with the economic evolution of the United States of America."obsoleteuncountable

3. (software engineering) A relationship between two or more elements of software in which changing one necessitates changing the others in order to maintain overall correctness; a metric for such a relationship.Examples: "The construct of inheritance–although wildly popular in most object-oriented shops—may sometimes introduce raging connascence."; "For example, if two classes in the same component have connascence of meaning, it is less damaging to the code base than if two components have the same form of connascence. Developers must consider strength and locality together."; "Connascence, in the context of software engineering, refers to the degree of coupling between software components."uncountable