Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Have you heard someone - or have you mixed-up - "incident" "incidence" "incidences" "incidents" "instances"?
AND SO ON!?
So what are the differences? Some are obvious - others not so!
Incidentses is NOT a word for instance!
Incident - incidence
incidents - incidence
incidents - incidences
incidents - incidence - incidences - instances
MAN!
2 Answers
- norcekriLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
The first responder was incorrect in a couple of particulars.
The only person I've heard confuse these terms was a workshop presenter who failed to look up the terms before class, and attempted to use them in ignorance through the presentation.
If *you* have a problem with the base terms (incident, incidence, instance), then simply look up the definitions. Are you having a problem with what you found? Is there a particular paradigm in which the restricted meanings give you trouble?
- 1 decade ago
-incident: (noun) is the singular word
-incidents: is the plural form of incident
-incidence: is a collective noun for the word incident.
-incidences: is not a word
