Definition of "inherence" [in•her•ence]

• The state of being inherent or permanently present in something; indwelling. (noun)

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• "I mean that if anyone asks you, “What that is, the inherence of which makes the body hot?"
• "I mean that if any one asks you "what that is, the inherence of which makes the body hot," you will reply not heat (this is what I call the safe and stupid answer), but fire, a far better answer, which we are now in a condition to give."
• "Now, if to this real in the substance we ascribe a particular existence (for example, to motion as an accident of matter), this existence is called inherence, in contradistinction to the existence of substance, which we call subsistence."