INTERRELATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness

Example:

interrelationships of animal structure and function

Synonyms:

interrelatedness; interrelation; interrelationship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("interrelation" is a kind of...):

relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interrelation"):

psychodynamics (the interrelation of conscious and unconscious processes and emotions that determine personality and motivation)

Derivation:

interrelate (place into a mutual relationship)

interrelate (be in a relationship with)

interrelationship (mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness)