instantial
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editinstantial (not comparable)
- Relating to, being, or constituting an instance.
- Being instantiated.
- Hyponyms: coinstantial, coinstantiated
- Coordinate term: reified
- Near-synonyms: instated, realized
- when hypotheticals become instantial
- Relating to a particular instance of something, not the general case.
- Synonym: incidental
- Antonyms: generic, systemic, categorical, typical, classical, classic
- Hypernym: accidental
- Near-synonyms: coincidental; random; sporadic
- Some of those attributes are merely instantial, whereas others are truly generic.
- Being instantiated.