reciprocity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rec=i=proc=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

reciprocity, n. [Cf. F. réciprocité. See Reciprocal.].

•  Mutual action and reaction.  [1913 Webster]
•  Reciprocal advantages, obligations, or rights; reciprocation.  [1913 Webster]

Reciprocity treaty, Treaty of reciprocity, a treaty concluded between two countries, conferring equal privileges as regards customs or charges on imports, or in other respects.

Syn. -- Reciprocation; interchange; mutuality.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

reciprocity, n.
1 the condition of being reciprocal.
2 mutual action.
3 give and take, esp. the interchange of privileges between countries and organizations.

Etymology

F r{eacute}ciprocit{eacute} f. r{eacute}ciproque f. L reciprocus (as RECIPROCATE)

THESAURUS

reciprocity

accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, alternation, amity, balance, battledore and shuttlecock, bipartisanship, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, coequality, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communion, communism, communitarianism, community, community of interests, commutation, compatibility, complicity, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, congeniality, cooperation, cooperativeness, corelation, correlation, correlativism, correlativity, correspondence, counterchange, cross fire, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, empathy, equilibrium, equipollence, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, exchange, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, frictionlessness, give-and-take, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, identity, interchange, intermutation, interplay, inverse proportion, inverse ratio, inverse relationship, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, kinship, lex talionis, like-mindedness, love, mass action, measure for measure, morale, mutual admiration, mutual assistance, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutualism, mutuality, octet, oneness, peace, permutation, pooling, pooling of resources, proportionality, pulling together, quartet, quid pro quo, quintet, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocality, reciprocation, relativity, retaliation, septet, sextet, sharing, solidarity, something for something, symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, tit for tat, transposal, transposition, trio, triumvirate, troika, understanding, union, unison, united action, unity

ROGET THESAURUS

reciprocity

Correlation

N correlation, reciprocalness, reciprocity, reciprocation, mutuality, correlation, interdependence, interrelation, connection, link, association, interchange, exchange, barter, reciprocator, reprocitist, reciprocal, mutual, commutual, correlative, reciprocative, interrelated, closely related, alternate, interchangeable, interdependent, international, complemental, complementary, mutually, mutatis mutandis, vice versa, each other, one another, by turns, reciprocally, happy in our mutual help.

Interchange

N interchange, exchange, commutation, permutation, intermutation, reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement, shuffling, alternation, reciprocity, castling (at chess), hocus-pocus, interchangeableness, interchangeability, recombination, combination, barter, tit for tat, cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock, quid pro quo, interchanged, reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent, combinatorial, recombinant, in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis, backwards and forwards, by turns, turn and turn about, each in his turn, everyone in his turn.