1. occurring as something additional, extraneous, or unexpected
Usage: formal
2. in philosophy, dependent on or determined by underlying properties or facts
Usage: philosophy; technical

Examples

• The committee addressed several supervenient issues that arose during the meeting.
• Her artistic talent seemed supervenient to her primary role as a scientist.
• The philosopher argued that mental states are supervenient on physical brain states.
• Supervenient properties emerge from but depend on more basic features.
• The legal complications were supervenient to the original contract dispute.
• In ethics, some argue that moral properties are supervenient on natural properties.