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codependence, n.
Brit. |ˌkəʊdɪˈpɛnd(ə)ns|, U.S. |ˈˌkoʊdəˈpɛndns|
[‹ co- prefix + dependence n. In sense 2 after codependency n.]
1. Joint dependence of two or more entities, esp. factors or mathematical objects, on each other, or on some common factor or principle. Also: dependence on two or more factors simultaneously.
1971Current Anthropol. 12 1376/2 The most important feature of the new towns in Africa is the growth of a new society in which African and ‘Western’ culture are bound in the closest co-dependence and co-recognition. 1982Biometrika 69 514 Codependence between X and Y is dependence totally insensitive to ordering of components in any pair of values. 1996Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (B.) 351543 Codependence on two activators is due to simultaneous contacts between separate activators and RNA polymerase.
2. Psychoanal. (orig. and chiefly U.S.) = codependency n.
1985A. W. Schaef Co-dependence i. 3 Co-dependence has the beauty of being a ‘grass-roots’ idea. 1989Washington Post 17 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 28/4 After years of making excuses to his wife's employers and friends.., he discovered there was a word for his habit: codependence. 1996Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 11 May j1 Insofar as the novel works..it really conveys Otto's boredom with Simone, her neediness, their co-dependence. |