interdependency
English edit
Etymology edit
inter- + dependency
Noun edit
interdependency (plural interdependencies)
- A mutual dependence, connection or correlation.
- 2012 May 18, Bob Doppelt, “Business leaders need systemic thinking for sustainability”, in The Guardian[1]:
- All life on our planet exists only because we are enmeshed within a complex web of interdependent ecological and social systems. Executives must remove their blinkers and recognise this natural law of interdependency.
- 2014 April 16, Michael Moorcock, “The Empire of Necessity: The Untold History of a Slave Rebellion in the Age of Liberty”, in The Guardian[2]:
- In a superbly argued and richly detailed account of the interdependencies of slavery and revolution throughout the Americas, as well as the religious traditions of Protestantism, Catholicism and Islam (many of the west Africans were educated Muslims), […]