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correlatively

correlatively

8.1
Showing that two things are connected or depend on each other
  • adverb
  • /ˌkɔːrəˈlɛtɪvli/
translation icon : correlativamente
  • His procedure suggests another modernism: the refutation of the idea of the artwork's permanence, and so, correlatively, of the permanence of heroic artistic fame itself.

Examples

  • Authority is "the right to command and, correlatively, the right to be obeyed."

    Academic text (1995)
  • The preponderance of authors and editors seem to think that reason establishes the truth of liberalism; that, correlatively, conservative views result largely from shoddy reasoning.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Correlatively, interdependent populations do not make a "system" in the sense that they could be defined as parts of a large whole.

    Blog text (8)
  • Although reality's abrupt intrusion into the epistolary exchange may signal the termination of the correspondence, it signals correlatively the beginning of a textual enterprise.

    Academic text (1994)
  • And correlatively, why has there been no counter-protest from Western women, many of whom are well aware that these images of womanhood are further fetishized and exploited by the advertising that is necessary to increase the demand for all kinds of commodities that support Western economies?

    Academic text (1994)
  • Proust reminds us of the complete absence of irony in nostalgic forms and, correlatively, of the involuntary dimension of true irony.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Authority is "the right to command and, correlatively, the right to be obeyed."

  • Correlatively, interdependent populations do not make a "system" in the sense that they could be defined as parts of a large whole.

  • Revelation consisted of statements made by the Magisterium about God; and faith, correlatively, was understood as assent to those statements.

Synonyms

correspondingly
vscorrelatively
5 4.8

In a way that matches something else

is broader, showing two things affect each other rather than only matching
concordantly
vscorrelatively
  • Specialized
8.0

In a way that two or more related people have the same condition

is about mutual or corresponding links, not just identical outcomes
reciprocally
vscorrelatively
  • Specialized
7.3

In an opposite way so one thing goes up while the other goes down

expresses mutual or matching relation, not an inverse opposition

Surface Forms

correlatively positive

Morphology

correlatively = correlative (transparent) = correlate + ive + ly

Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'correlative', yielding a predictable adverbial meaning.

Etymology

Correlatively comes from the prefix co- ('together') and the root relate ('to connect'), and it paints the picture of two things that match or change together. Imagine two lines on a chart rising side by side or two rules that act together; they show how one thing relates to the other. So, when things happen correlatively, they show a clear mutual or corresponding relationship.