How do you pronounce "intervenient"?

Pronounced //ɪntəˈviːnɪənt//.

Intervenient

Common synonyms include: intermediary, intermediate, interruptive, intervening, intrusive, invasive.

//ɪntəˈviːnɪənt// adj, noun

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Noun

1
One who intervenes.
"One intervenient said that whereas we cannot prevent tourism, we can at least try to minimize the impact and the destabilizing effects."

Adjective

1
Being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental. not-comparable
"We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance."
2
Intervening, interceding, placed or coming between. not-comparable
"The massive slopes rose on every hand; from deep intervenient ravines came now and then silver gleams of mountain torrents among the crags and the pines."

"We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance."

From the present participle stem of Latin intervenīre.

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