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relationality

relationality

1 8.7
How connections with others help define people or things
  • noun
  • /rɪˌleɪʃəˈnælɪti/
  • Formal
translation icon : relacionalidad
  • In therapy, relationality between the therapist and client is essential for effective healing.
  • relationality and corporeality
  • relationality and spatiality
  • relationality, spatiality, and temporality

I do believe there is a relationality to all species on the planet because we've all Co arise together.

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Examples

  • The question about knowing leads us to recognize the profound relationality of the human being to the whole world around us.

    Academic text (1991)
  • An approach that appreciates territoriality as the basis of administrative organization and relationality as the practice of everyday life has proved to be useful in this regard.

    Academic text (2018)
  • We don't need to get into all this, but this, this relationship, this relationality is quite important.

  • I do believe there is a relationality to all species on the planet because we've all Co arise together.

  • In human persons, in contrast, personhood and relationality are imperfectly realized.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Feminist commodity chain analysis recognizes the relationality between the material and the cultural and the contingency of that relationship.

    Academic text (2004)
  • In Riegl's account, the history of art is characterized by a coming to the fore of an awareness of relationality.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Relationality is conceived within a cosmovisional framework whose basic assumption is multiplicity.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Authentic relationality must be grounded in the recognition of uniqueness and separateness, Bonhoeffer argues.

    Academic text (2000)
  • In fact, it is precisely in contrast to the mutuality of relationality that exploitation and dominance are seen as oppressive realities.

    Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

connection
vsrelationality
1.9

A relationship between people, things, ideas, or events

uses those links as the basis for defining items rather than isolated ties
relation
vsrelationality
745 2.8

How people, groups, or countries are connected and act toward each other

frames things by their interactions focusing on definition by such links
connectedness
vsrelationality
8 4.8

How people and things are joined and relate to each other

focuses on items defined through their network of links rather than simple joining
interconnectedness
vsrelationality
6 6.8

The way things are linked and affect each other

focuses on items defined by their positions within networks rather than simple linking
relatedness
vsrelationality
2 5.5

How closely people or things connect to each other

focuses on things being defined by their ties rather than just being connected
interrelationship
vsrelationality
2 5.9

A connection where two or more things affect each other

views things as defined by their mutual links rather than describing a single link
interrelation
vsrelationality
1 5.8

A way two or more things connect and affect each other

treats identity or meaning as produced by those connections not just the way they link
interrelatedness
vsrelationality
1 7.1

A close connection between things that makes them affect each other

emphasizes that things are defined by those mutual ties rather than being linked

How Relational

relationality
  • Formal
1 8.7
relation
745 2.8
association
131 3.0
independence
608 3.0

Surface Forms

relationality singular

Morphology

relationality = relational (transparent) = relation + al + ity

Standard adjectival-to-nominal derivation: 'relational' + '-ity' yields a noun meaning the quality or state of being relational.

Etymology

Relationality comes from relation, the same root as relate and relationship, and this root is about being 'connected' to others. So relationality means the idea that people or things are defined by their ties and connections to others.