Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun entailment

1 sense of entailment

Sense 1
deduction, entailment, implication -- (something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications")
       => inference, illation -- (the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation)