interdependence
/ˌɪntɚdəpˈɛndəns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.69 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The transmission oil is cooled in a heat exchanger through which the cooling water is circulated, to assist rapid warming of the engine system and to bring engine and transmission into their true interdependence."
- "But today, as electricity creates conditions of extreme interdependence on a global scale, we move swiftly again into an auditory world of simultaneous events and over-all awareness."
- "For those concerned that the interdependence of power and water could lead to higher costs and greater scarcity of both, two energy developments in the last five years offer both good news and bad."
- "It's less a vision for the wholesale migration of humanity to a new state of being than a quest to transcend all that is human: the body, interdependence, compassion, vulnerability and complexity."
- "Europe’s cherished conviction that economic interdependence is the best guarantee for peace has turned out to be wrong."
- "The European Economic Community was founded on the principle after the second world war that economic trade and interdependence was the best recipe for peace between France and Germany first, and then between Europe and the rest of the world. Overnight all this became obsolete."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English dependence English interdependence From inter- + dependence.