interdependency
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
From inter- + dependency.
Noun
interdependency (plural interdependencies)
- A mutual dependence, connection or correlation.
- 2012 May 18, Bob Doppelt, “Business leaders need systemic thinking for sustainability”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 October 2026:
- All life on our planet exists only because we are enmeshed within a complex web of interdependent ecological and social systems. Executives must remove their blinkers and recognise this natural law of interdependency.
- 2014 April 16, Michael Moorcock, “The Empire of Necessity: The Untold History of a Slave Rebellion in the Age of Liberty”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 October 2026:
- In a superbly argued and richly detailed account of the interdependencies of slavery and revolution throughout the Americas, as well as the religious traditions of Protestantism, Catholicism and Islam (many of the west Africans were educated Muslims), […]
- 2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “On the structure of this book” (chapter 6), in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John Benjamins Publishing Company, , →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 27:
- We have tried to conceptualise the chapters in a manner that allows them to be read selectively without too much interdependency.