Etymograph

English

evenemential

Evenemential comes from French événementiel.

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentévénementiel
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1984evenemential

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentévénementiel
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1984evenemential

Earliest quotation: 1984, Ronald Hoffman, Peter J. Albert: “Rather than finding that thought "disturbing," Clausewitz would suggest…”

Today it means

adj Pertaining to events, as directly experienced, as opposed to ideas about them.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / French événementiel / evenemential