CONNECTEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does connectedness mean? 

• CONNECTEDNESS (noun)
  The noun CONNECTEDNESS has 2 senses:

1. the state of being connected

2. a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)

  Familiarity information: CONNECTEDNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONNECTEDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being connected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

connectedness; connection; link

Context example:

the connection between church and state is inescapable

Hypernyms ("connectedness" is a kind of...):

unification; union (the state of being joined or united or linked)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "connectedness"):

contact (the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity)

concatenation (the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series)

interconnectedness; interconnection (a state of being connected reciprocally)

coherence; coherency; cohesion; cohesiveness (the state of cohering or sticking together)

Antonym:

disconnectedness (state of being disconnected)

Derivation:

connected (joined or linked together)

connected (being joined in close association)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

connectedness; connection; connexion

Context example:

there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare

Hypernyms ("connectedness" is a kind of...):

relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)

Attribute:

connected (joined or linked together)

unconnected (not joined or linked together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "connectedness"):

series ((electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other)

alliance; bond (a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest)

linkage (an associative relation)

communication (a connection allowing access between persons or places)

concatenation (the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc)

bridge (something resembling a bridge in form or function)

involvement (a connection of inclusion or containment)

relevance; relevancy (the relation of something to the matter at hand)

relatedness (a particular manner of connectedness)

Antonym:

unconnectedness (the lack of a connection between things)

Derivation:

connected (stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer)

connected (wired together to an alarm system)