Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

reciprocal altruism

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English

Syllables: re-cip-ro-cal al-tru-ism
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The phenomenon of two organisms acting in ways that mutually benefit one another.

Uncountable

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

reciprocal altruisms (plural)

Questions

What does reciprocal altruism mean?: The phenomenon of two organisms acting in ways that mutually benefit one another.

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