RECIPROCITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reciprocity mean? 

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

1. a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence

2. mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges

  Familiarity information: RECIPROCITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECIPROCITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A relation of mutual dependence or action or influence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

reciprocality; reciprocity

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

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

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

complementarity (the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other)

correlation; correlativity (a reciprocal relation between two or more things)

interdependence; interdependency; mutuality (a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups))

mutuality; mutualness (a reciprocality of sentiments)

reciprocal (something (a term or expression or concept) that has an inverse relation to something else)

Derivation:

reciprocal (concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

give-and-take; interchange; reciprocation (mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information))

Derivation:

reciprocal (concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return)

 Context examples 

Homogenous dietary habits, together with ritual and funerary practices in which the emphasis was on community rather than the individual, show that Megalithic peoples were characterized by social relations that were fundamentally based on values ​​such as equality, reciprocity, and solidarity.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)