n. The state of being inherent or permanently present in something; indwelling.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The state of inhering; permanent existence in something; innateness; inseparable and essential connection.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The state of being inherent or of inhering; intrinsic existence.
n. The relation to its subject of an accident, or that which cannot exist out of a substance as subject. Thus, the relation of mortality to man is inherence.
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n. the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic
Word Usage
"Now, if to this real in the substance we ascribe a particular existence (for example, to motion as an accident of matter), this existence is called inherence, in contradistinction to the existence of substance, which we call subsistence."