RELATEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relatedness mean? 

• RELATEDNESS (noun)
  The noun RELATEDNESS has 1 sense:

1. a particular manner of connectedness

  Familiarity information: RELATEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATEDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A particular manner of connectedness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Context example:

the relatedness of all living things

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

connectedness; connection; connexion (a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it))

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

bearing (relevant relation or interconnection)

Antonym:

unrelatedness (the lack of any particular manner of connectedness)

Derivation:

related (connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage)

related (being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics)

 Context examples 

The judgment of relatedness between an adverse event and an activity or observation result.

(Causality, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A mathematical method for calculating a relatedness score for genes.

(Gene Distance Metric, NCI Thesaurus)

Genetic relatedness between individuals who are descendants of at least one common ancestor.

(Biological Relative, NCI Dictionary)