supervene
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Is supervene a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To follow (something) closely, either as a consequence or in contrast.Examples: "The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular."; "The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]"; "After such leave-takings, especially where something like a revelation takes place, there sometimes supervenes, I'm told, a sort of excitement before the chill and ache of separation sets in."intransitive
2. (philosophy, followed by on) To be dependent on something else for existence, truth, or instantiation.Examples: "For instance, an idiosyncratic necessitist might claim that even if a river were not spatiotemporally located, it would still be ugly or beautiful in ways that do not supervene on anything else."
Definition source: Wiktionary