as in reciprocity
the state of having a relation to or connection with or being necessarily reliant upon something else
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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.
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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
Under relativity, all times are equally real.
—Adrian Bardon, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
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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
Under relativity, all times are equally real.
—Adrian Bardon, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relativity
reciprocity
Noun
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More information can be found on driver privilege reciprocity on the Texas DPS site.—
Michael Cuviello,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Apr. 2026
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That is unless the state has a reciprocity agreement with your home state or doesn’t levy an income tax.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Relativity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relativity. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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