complementarity
The state or characteristic of being complementary.
Noun
- The state or characteristic of being complementary.
- "Synergy is one of the most overused words in the English language, but there is a tremendous complementarity to these organizations." - 1987 April 2, Kenneth N. Gilpin, “2 Forecasting Firms to Merge”, in New York...
- A semantic relationship between two words wherein negative use of one entails the affirmative of the other with no gradability; the relation of binary antonyms.
- For complementarity, there are entailments both from affirmative sentences to the corresponding negative sentences (which is what ordinary antonymy allows) and from negative sentences to the corresponding affirmative...
- The idea that physical phenomena may have (mutually contradictory) properties that cannot be observed simultaneously (e.g. wave-particle duality).
Origin
Etymology tree English complementary Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English complementarity From complementary + -ity.