ingredience

noun

in·​gre·​di·​ence

ə̇nˈgrēdēən(t)s

plural -s

1

a

archaic : an ingredient or a mixture of ingredients

later, the gold lost its purity and contained up to ¹/₃ other ingrediences

—H. M. F. Schulman and H. W. Holzer

b

: the fact of entering as an ingredient

this complete ingredience in an occasion, so as to yield … fusion of individual essence with other eternal objects

—A. N. Whitehead

2

obsolete : entrance, ingress

Word History

Etymology

in sense 1, alteration of ingredients, plural of ingredient entry 1; in sense 2, from Latin ingredi + English -ence

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