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embeddedness

embeddedness

1 7.6
Being tightly part of something like a group or system
  • noun
  • /ɪmˈbɛdɪdnəs/
translation icon : incrustación
  • Nevertheless, this feeling reflects the scientific facts of our embeddedness in nature.
  • embeddedness of networks
  • cultural embeddedness
  • social embeddedness

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Examples

  • Why might institutional embeddedness potentially act as a deterrent to drug use?

    Academic text (2007)
  • Network embeddedness theory tells us, however, that it may be difficult to manage new partnerships collaboratively.

    Academic text (2007)
  • But precisely because of this embeddedness, athletics has the power to challenge those systems.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Second, social embeddedness should be a priority for renewable energy planning and implementation.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The second part further revealed the embeddedness of deduction into other modes of reasoning.

    Academic text (2016)
  • While these evaluations are oversimplified, they point to the embeddedness of gender relations in political institutions.

    Academic text (1998)
  • For the ethnographer, this perspective represents his or her own cultural conditioning, the embeddedness in one's original culture and worldview.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Themes common to all three are their cultural embeddedness, a search for ideal places, survivability over time, reticulation, and segmentation.

    Academic text (2008)
  • But ejido members were unwilling to relinquish their embeddedness within the Mexican political patronage system that dominated the twentieth century.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The embeddedness of traditional values in modern society can create conflict between generations.

Synonyms

rootedness
vsembeddedness
1 6.2

Being firmly connected to a place or community and its traditions

covers deeper containment across systems or materials beyond local ties
embedment
vsembeddedness
  • Specialized
6.7

An object fixed firmly inside another material, like a fossil in rock

is the resulting ongoing condition of deep integration and containment
immanency
vsembeddedness
  • Formal
9.9

Being present inside something rather than outside it

places stronger emphasis on being deeply fixed or integrated within something

Antonyms

Something breaks into smaller pieces and falls apart

How Embedded

integration
47 4.0
embeddedness
1 7.6
separateness
2 6.6

Surface Forms

embeddedness singular

Morphology

embeddedness = embedded (transparent) = embed + ed + ness

The suffix '-ness' is used to form a noun indicating a state or quality from the adjective 'embedded'.

Etymology

The word embeddedness comes from embed, which is made of em- 'in' and bed 'a place to hold something', like putting a seed into a flower bed. So embeddedness means being firmly fixed or deeply part of something else.