inhesion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   inherence; the state or act of existing in something as a quality exists in a substance

   The scholastic account treats color as requiring a subject of inhesion.

From Latin inhaesio, 'a sticking in or cleaving to,' from inhaerere, 'to adhere or inhere.' Scholastic philosophy used it for a quality's dependence on the substance in which it exists.

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