correlative
- noun
- /kəˈrɛlətɪv/
- The mode of language correlative to consciousness is meaning.
- objective correlative
But all of them will indeed have correlatives.
- But all of them will indeed have correlatives.
Examples
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Arbitrary and differential are two correlative qualities.
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You have a double precisely because you have a correlative half, and vice versa.
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Under Byron's gaze, the female body has consequence only as the correlative of male desire.
Academic text (1992) -
In the Western tradition, he described legal relations in terms of various opposites and correlatives.
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Verguenza requires, as its logical correlative, recogimiento or seclusion.
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Textual cohesion is the semantic correlative to mode in semiotics.
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The first is the I-based nature of Pizarnik's poetry, a correlative of the individual's perceived schizophrenia and the imperative to plumb it.
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The concepts of supply and demand are correlative in economics, influencing each other constantly.
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In grammar, conjunctions like 'either' and 'or' serve as correlatives that link related ideas.
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Joy and sadness are often seen as correlative emotions that enhance our understanding of the human experience.
Synonyms
A thing that is closely connected to another and changes with it
Something that happens at the same time as another thing
Surface Forms
Morphology
correlative = correlative (semi-transparent) = cor + relate + ive
The noun is a straightforward substantivization of the adjective 'correlative', whose structure is itself transparently built from 'cor' + 'relate' + 'ive'.
Etymology
The word correlative comes from the parts co- ('together') and relate ('to link'). Think of a 'correlative' as one half of a matching pair that belongs with the other half, so each correlative matches and completes the other, like the two words in 'either...or'.