co-occurring

Appearing at once

Co-occurring means happening or existing at the same time or together.

The term appears most often in clinical and academic contexts: co-occurring disorders describes someone with both a mental health condition and substance abuse problem.

In linguistics, co-occurring words are those that frequently appear together.

Anxiety and depression are often co-occurring conditions.

temporal

simultaneous

Happening at same time

synchronous · contemporaneous · concomitant · coexistent · coeval · aligned · coordinated · matched · interlocking · harmonized

comorbid

comorbidity

Simultaneous presence of diseases

syndrome · disorder · secondary · associated · interrelated · complication · overlap · interaction · depression · anxiety

epidemiological

prevalence

State of being widespread

cohort · cross-sectional · outbreak · transmission · endemic · cluster · exposure · surveillance · association · variable

Categories
Opposites
temporal simultaneity

co-occurringsequential

Occurring in succession

successive · alternating · asynchronous · staggered · consecutive

pattern of occurrence

co-occurringalternating

Occurring in turns

taking turns · oscillating · interleaved · cyclical · rotating

presence/absence together

co-occurringmutually exclusive

Cannot both be true

disjoint · separate · unaccompanied · solitary

Family

occur, currency, precursor, excursion, occurrence, occurring, concur, concurrent, recourse

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