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Mutuality

Mutuality \Mu`tu*al"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. mutualit['e].]

  1. The quality of correlation; reciprocation; interchange; interaction; interdependence.

  2. (Law) Reciprocity of consideration.
    --Wharton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mutuality

1580s, from mutual + -ity.

Wiktionary
mutuality

n. The property of being mutual.

WordNet
mutuality
  1. n. a reciprocality of sentiments; "the mutuality of their affection was obvious" [syn: mutualness]

  2. a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) [syn: interdependence, interdependency]

Wikipedia
Mutuality

Mutuality can refer to:

  • Mutualism (disambiguation)
  • Reciprocity (disambiguation)

Usage examples of "mutuality".

One reached the street willing to embrace the mass, to subside into a comforting mutuality, to dismiss the disconcerting spectacle of the unassimilated, of the unsleeping moral conscience, which, if not checked, might lead to acts one was not anxious to witness.

Such energetic canterings always excited you, and we rode again, you facing me, straddling and impaled, your skirts covering our union, while that brave horse, uncomplaining, rode round and round within the hidden, sunlit arena of that flower carpeted, insect loud clearing, the animal's springing, muscled vigour bringing us, finally, eventually, by our relative stillness (hypnotised, oblivious, lost within that lengthened moment of dappling light and buzzing air) surrendering all control to its long pulsing motions, to a sweet mutuality of bliss.

The problem is often in bringing the two distant age groups into each other's presence so that the dynamics of their interaction and mutuality can take place.