Relating to or involving a conjuncture; depending on a particular combination of circumstances or a critical moment.
Formed from conjuncture plus -al. Conjuncture comes from Latin conjunctura (joining, joint), making this adjective describe things related to critical joinings of events or circumstances.
Historians and social scientists love the term 'conjunctural' to describe unique historical moments that result from multiple forces converging—'the conjunctural factors leading to the revolution' means the specific combination of circumstances that created that precise moment.
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