interdependence

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word interdependence. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word interdependence, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say interdependence in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word interdependence you have here. The definition of the word interdependence will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofinterdependence, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

inter- +‎ dependence

Noun

interdependence (countable and uncountable, plural interdependences)

  1. The condition of being interdependent.
    • 1960 June, “The N.B. Loco. Co. diesel-hydraulic Type "2" locomotive”, in Trains Illustrated, page 345:
      The transmission oil is cooled in a heat exchanger through which the cooling water is circulated, to assist rapid warming of the engine system and to bring engine and transmission into their true interdependence.
    • 1962, Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy, University of Toronto Press, →OCLC, pages 28–29:
      But today, as electricity creates conditions of extreme interdependence on a global scale, we move swiftly again into an auditory world of simultaneous events and over-all awareness.
    • 2015 April 22, Felicity Barringer, “Troubling Interdependency of Water and Power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      For those concerned that the interdependence of power and water could lead to higher costs and greater scarcity of both, two energy developments in the last five years offer both good news and bad.
    • 2019, Douglas Rushkoff, “Survival of the Richest”, in Extinction Rebellion, editor, This Is Not A Drill, London: Penguin, →ISBN:
      It's less a vision for the wholesale migration of humanity to a new state of being than a quest to transcend all that is human: the body, interdependence, compassion, vulnerability and complexity.
    • 2022 February 27, Ivan Krastev, “We Are All Living in Vladimir Putin’s World Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      Europe’s cherished conviction that economic interdependence is the best guarantee for peace has turned out to be wrong.
    • 2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, quoting Nicole Gnesotto, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
      The European Economic Community was founded on the principle after the second world war that economic trade and interdependence was the best recipe for peace between France and Germany first, and then between Europe and the rest of the world. Overnight all this became obsolete.

Translations