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relationally

relationally

1 6.5
In a way that focuses on how people or groups connect
  • adverb
  • /rɪˈleɪʃənəli/
translation icon : relacionalmente
  • Recent reviews emphasize that school counselors and psychologists are better equipped to address increasingly complex peer relationship and adjustment problems when they understand and assess for relationally aggressive behaviors (Young et al., 2006).
  • relationally aggressive behavior
  • relationally based perspective
  • relationally aggressive

Quote, our ability to think relationally is one of the reasons we are running the planet.

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Examples

  • Central to this relationally based perspective are the interrelated concepts of spirit, body, mind, and context.

    Academic text (2009)
  • In keeping with this goal, we offer a relationally based Native perspective in which wellness results from the complex interplay of spirituality, physical status, cognitive and emotional processes, and environment.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Quote, our ability to think relationally is one of the reasons we are running the planet.

  • It's a Jewish story about the separation of man and women from God and relationally from each other and how that happened.

  • To connect relationally with them is paramount in raising children.

    Blog text (22)
  • But I think relationally trust almost goes beyond faith because I can stand in what I know, and I can decide not to waver.

  • I'm also reading When Helping Hurts about working relationally.

    Blog text (11)
  • Here, the organization of people into groups related to one another by age relations served to regulate social interaction by organizing people relationally.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Furthermore, in college environments, a personalized educational experience may make a substantial difference because learning in this context is relationally driven (Frymier & Houser, 2000).

    Academic text (2009)
  • Many people experience challenges relationally when trying to build strong friendships.

Synonyms

interpersonally
vsrelationally
1 5.3

In a way that is about how people talk and get along with each other

is used for relationships involving people or things broadly
associatively
vsrelationally
7.2

You connect things so one thing makes you think of another

is broader and applies to relationships among people as well as things
correlatively
vsrelationally
8.1

Showing that two things are connected or depend on each other

is more general and covers relationships without mutual correspondence

How Relational

relationally
1 6.5
mutually
79 3.3
independently
121 2.9

Surface Forms

relationally positive

Morphology

relationally = relational (transparent) = relation + al + ly

Standard adverb formation from the adjective 'relational'.

Etymology

Relationally comes from relation, which means 'connection' or 'link' and is the same root as relate and relative. So to act relationally is to behave in a way that builds or uses connections between people or things.