Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or property of having a relational force.
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- noun The state or condition of being
relational .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Poetics, literary critic Kevin Hutchings analyzes the Polypus in Blake's Jerusalem as a "travesty or parody of the holistic relationality which is a definitive yet ultimately irreducible or undefinable trait of Blakean 'Life'" (194).
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To be made in the image and likeness of God, as the Christian tradition sees it, is to be made -- body and soul -- to reflect the Trinity, that is to be made for love and relationality.
Paul Lakeland: Sexual Diversity And The Catholic Church: Time For A Serious Conversation? Paul Lakeland 2011
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When sex loses its relationality, it becomes mere pornography.
W. Hunter Roberts: Sexual Anarchy and Other Worries W. Hunter Roberts 2011
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When sex loses its relationality, it becomes mere pornography.
W. Hunter Roberts: Sexual Anarchy and Other Worries W. Hunter Roberts 2011
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There is more than a little merit to Creston Davis's claim that "the portal to theology was opened precisely because capitalism is ultimately a self-enclosed structure, and so theology gives us a way to transcend capital," a way that is "premised on relationality and not on Ego."
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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To be made in the image and likeness of God, as the Christian tradition sees it, is to be made -- body and soul -- to reflect the Trinity, that is to be made for love and relationality.
Paul Lakeland: Sexual Diversity And The Catholic Church: Time For A Serious Conversation? Paul Lakeland 2011
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There is more than a little merit to Creston Davis's claim that "the portal to theology was opened precisely because capitalism is ultimately a self-enclosed structure, and so theology gives us a way to transcend capital," a way that is "premised on relationality and not on Ego."
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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In both cases, Bourdieu emphasizes positionality over substance, relationality over autonomy.
Notes on 'Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu' 2008
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A new science is giving us a renewed sense of our interconnection with all things, of our relationality, and of the numinosity, extraordinary depth and prodigious richness of nature.
God, Strings, Emergence, and the Future of the World By Nicola Hoggard Creegan William Harryman 2009
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Hence the antidote is to clearly see relationality, which we call dependent-arising.
Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009
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