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A relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities
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complementarity
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other; "the complementarity of the sexes"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1908, a term in physics, from complementary + -ity .
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or characteristic of being complementary
Usage examples of complementarity.
Each sex could then, because of its fears, try to protect itself from the other, denying the obvious complementarities of nature, the fitting together of diverse dispositions and modalities.
How many wistful teens have yearned to find that one special other with all the right complementarities to blend in perfect union?
It seemed a deeply sensuous complementarity that shook me to the core.
I experienced then, degraded and abused though I was, with a flood of elation, primitive organic, animal, primate complementarity, the complementarity of man and woman, the complementarity beyond mythology and rhetoric, the complementarity of he who takes and she who is taken, of he who has, and owns, and of she whom he has, whom he owns, and makes his.
In the course of the savage discipline inflicted upon me, late in its measures, I had, it both thrilling and horrifying me, sensed the ancient primate complementarity of male and female, that in the ancient biological sovereignties of nature, on this world reasserted, I, a female, was simply subordinate to the male.
First, as girls, natural slaves, they were in a relationship to which, in effect, they were bred by nature, that of the submitting organism in an ancient biological complementarity of male and female.