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con·cres·cence

(kən-krĕs′əns)

1. Biology The growing together of related parts, tissues, or cells.

2. The amassing of physical particles.

[Latin concrēscentia, from concrēscēns, concrēscent-, present participle of concrēscere, to grow together; see concrete.]

con·cres′cent adj.

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concrescence

(kənˈkrɛsəns)

(Biology) biology a growing together of initially separate parts or organs

[C17: from Latin concrēscentia, from concrēscere to grow together, from crēscere to grow; see crescent]

conˈcrescent adj

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con•cres•cence

(kɒnˈkrɛs əns, kən-)

n.

a growing together, as of tissue or embryonic parts; coalescence.

[1600–10; < Latin concrēscentia=concrēscent-, s. of concrēscēns, present participle of concrēscere to harden, set (see concrete) + -ia -ia]

con•cres′cent, adj.

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Whitehead criticized Kant for failing to consider adequately the most primitive dimension of experience, feeling, which Whitehead took to be central to the concrescence of the primacy existents, actual occasions.

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I myself do not see us as so bereft; we may be moving there, so that one day, through a concrescence of losses, we will have arrived without knowing it.