Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being related; affinity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
related , especially bykinship .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a particular manner of connectedness
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word relatedness.
Examples
-
Recovery Option: Balanced relatedness is neither a withdrawal from another person nor a fusion with them.
Dr. Tian Dayton: Relationship Dynamics Within the Addicted/Traumatized Family System Dr. Tian Dayton 2010
-
Jobling says that he toyed with the idea of investigating this group to see if their degree of relatedness is lower.
-
Our core psychological need for "relatedness," say researchers, mandates that we have close relationships with others.
Joe Robinson: Is Social Networking Destroying Our Social Lives? Joe Robinson 2011
-
I can take a car, a little red wagon, and a lawnmower, posit 'relatedness' based on similarities, arrange them in a 'progression' and theorize that one descended from the other – all with no need to mention a mechanism that brings about said changes.
-
Days later, the girl began spiraling downward into a cascade of illnesses and setbacks that, within months, presented as symptoms of autism, including: No response to verbal direction; loss of language skills; no eye contact; loss of "relatedness;" insomnia; incessant screaming; arching; and "watching the florescent lights repeatedly during examination."
David Kirby: Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now What? 2009
-
Days later, the girl began spiraling downward into a cascade of illnesses and setbacks that, within months, presented as symptoms of autism, including: No response to verbal direction; loss of language skills; no eye contact; loss of "relatedness;" insomnia; incessant screaming; arching; and "watching the florescent lights repeatedly during examination."
Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court GreenFertility 2008
-
It heals my pain and it gives others hope and the kind of relatedness one might need when they cant relate to anyone at all.
-
But that doesn’t mean they have a genetic relatedness which is relevant in the context of a vaccine.
-
In his book The Making of the Fittest, Sean Carroll writes “the degree of similarity in DNA is an index of the [evolutionary] relatedness of species.”
-
Groups of related organisms share suites of similar characteristics and the number of shared traits increases with relatedness.
A New Book 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.