concomitant
n. countablen. something that happens at the same time as another thing. You use this when two things are connected and one usually comes with the other.
n. a thing that exists or occurs in conjunction with another. Often used in academic or formal contexts to describe a secondary effect that accompanies a primary event.
The success of the project was a concomitant of hard work.
While the main goal was to reduce costs, the improved efficiency was a welcome concomitant of the new software.
The philosopher argued that the rise of industrial capitalism was a concomitant of the Enlightenment, as both relied on a rational approach to human labor and nature.
First attested 1607; from Middle French concomitant, from Latin concomitāns, the present participle of concomitor (“to accompany”), from con- (“together”) + comitor (“to accompany”), from comes (“companion”).