EGAVE

complementarity

About 1.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The state or characteristic of being complementary.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun The idea that physical phenomena may have (mutually contradictory) properties that cannot be observed simultaneously (e.g. wave-particle duality).

Similar words

complementary integrated mutually conjunction integrative integration complement integrating additionality additional

Often followed by

of between and in is with to principle among

Word family

complementarities

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