as in reciprocity
the state of having a relation to or connection with or being necessarily reliant upon something else
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While this may confine a human’s dream of immortality to solutions that rely on technological enhancements, bio-hacking your body, or science-fiction level technology that relies on novel physical laws and/or phenomena, there’s still plenty that relativity has to say about living forever.
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Big Think, 12 Mar. 2026
It’s brilliantly put for an American slogan of that post‑Einsteinian understanding of relativity, and how perception of the phenomenal world depends on the measuring instrument and the perceiver.
—Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
Feeney’s book features multiple narrators, but relativity is not an idea the series bothers to develop.
—Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Entropy still plays a key role at large scales, while relativity continues to describe how time behaves at high speeds and strong gravitational fields.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
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Big Think, 12 Mar. 2026
It’s brilliantly put for an American slogan of that post‑Einsteinian understanding of relativity, and how perception of the phenomenal world depends on the measuring instrument and the perceiver.
—Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
Feeney’s book features multiple narrators, but relativity is not an idea the series bothers to develop.
—Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Entropy still plays a key role at large scales, while relativity continues to describe how time behaves at high speeds and strong gravitational fields.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relativity
reciprocity
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Their focus on old values of community, mutual respect, reciprocity and the embrace of the gift economy is an antidote to the individualistic, competitive and combative discourse that’s prevalent in the West today.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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Many of the students in Noreus’ schools passed in Florida, which has reciprocity with many other states.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2026
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“Relativity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relativity. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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