INTERRELATIONSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interrelationship mean? 

• INTERRELATIONSHIP (noun)
  The noun INTERRELATIONSHIP has 1 sense:

1. mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness

  Familiarity information: INTERRELATIONSHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERRELATIONSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

interrelatedness; interrelation; interrelationship

Context example:

interrelationships of animal structure and function

Hypernyms ("interrelationship" is a kind of...):

relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interrelationship"):

psychodynamics (the interrelation of conscious and unconscious processes and emotions that determine personality and motivation)

Derivation:

interrelation (mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness)

 Context examples 

It chiefly concerns itself with understanding the interactions between the various systems of a cell, including the interrelationship of DNA, RNA and protein synthesis and learning how these interactions are regulated.

(Molecular Biology, NCI Thesaurus)

In a new study, the researchers describe the emerging role of interrelationships of organisms and their environment in understanding flooding.

(Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, National Science Foundation)