Is there a word for event-based like spatial is for space?

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Time → temporal

Space → spatial

Event → ?

Specifically, I would like a word that works in this context:

Proust was invoked by the event of smelling cookies to pen his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time. Hence his inspiration was ______ .

I am looking for that one word which would indicate it was an event-based trigger.

'Eventual' is not obsolete in the sense 'of the nature of an event or result'. — JEL, Commented Sep 27, 2015 at 8:51
I was hesitant to use situational after looking at the definition: "a set of circumstances in which one finds oneself; a state of affairs". That meant more a state to me, as opposed to an event. You could always argue that there is a state of 'event/s occurring' of course... But yeah, hrrrrm ... oh, and I don't mean to suggest my answer(s) didn't also have their own imprecision! :) — Lamar Latrell, Commented Sep 27, 2015 at 11:25
The problem is that events are discrete, vs occurring on a continuum like time and space. Terminology that works in a continuous domain may not work in a disjointed domain. — Hot Licks, Commented Dec 6, 2015 at 23:37

LPH · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-13 00:10:41Z

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Depends on the what definition of 'event' you had in mind.

But try:

Perceptible by the senses or through immediate experience: the phenomenal world

Among others:

Experiential

Factual

Incidental

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Laurent Duval · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-06 23:03:28Z

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Event-driven: refers to a methodology that focuses on events and event dependencies.

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