nonreciprocal
- adjective
- /ˌnɒn.rɪˈsɪp.rə.kəl/
- The sometimes distant and nonreciprocal relationship between the two needs to be re-examined.
- nonreciprocal tutoring
Examples
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To the extent that Foe is an intertextual repetition of Robinson Crusoe, both works represent a silence: requiring nonreciprocal sacrifice to God, faith is irreducibly secret and never open to repetition.
Academic text (2017) -
Studies using a nonreciprocal tutoring format were more likely to involve cross-age tutoring.
Academic text (2014) -
All three studies involving students with autism used a nonreciprocal format.
Academic text (2014) -
Students with LD and autism were more likely to participate in nonreciprocal peer tutoring arrangements.
Academic text (2014) -
That may well be true in individual cases at the national level, but the predominant pattern indicated in the present study is a simple, nonreciprocal influence of family planning on fertility.
Academic text (1990) -
Once independence is acquired, not only is the former colonial power under a continuing obligation to provide the former colony with foreign aid, but so are all other developed countries under a similar nonreciprocal obligation—including those that were never colonial powers.
Academic text (1992) -
Moderators examined were (a) reward versus no reward, (b) reciprocal versus nonreciprocal, (c) same age versus cross age, (d) behavior type, (e) disability status, and (f) direct versus collateral.
Academic text (2014) -
The teacher used a nonreciprocal method in class, where students listened but did not respond to each other.
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In their nonreciprocal interaction, one partner dominated the conversation while the other remained silent.
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The nonreciprocal nature of their relationship made it difficult for either of them to feel fully supported.
Antonyms
How Reciprocal
Surface Forms
Morphology
nonreciprocal = reciprocal (transparent) = non + reciprocal
The negative prefix 'non-' is productively attached to the adjective 'reciprocal', yielding the clear meaning 'not reciprocal'.
Etymology
Nonreciprocal comes from non- meaning 'not' and reciprocal meaning 'give and take' or 'back and forth'. So something nonreciprocal is not returned or shared equally — it is a one-way action where only one side gives.