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complementarity

DEFINITIONS OF: complementarity

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n a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities

Type of:
ungradable opposition
an opposition that has no intermediate grade; either one or the other

n the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other

“the complementarity of the sexes”
Type of:
reciprocality, reciprocity
a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence
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