interdependence

inter- +‎ dependence

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 428949, 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 0362-4331:

     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 0362-4331:

     Europe’s cherished conviction that economic interdependence is the best guarantee for peace has turned out to be wrong.