Definition of "correlative" adjective comparative more correlative , superlative most correlative
Mutually related ; corresponding . quotations examples
Quotations If we reinterpret these phenomena in terms of a consistently game -playing model of behavior , the need to distinguish between primary and secondary gains disappears . The correlative necessity to estimate the relative significance of physiological needs and dammed -up impulses on the one hand , and of social and interpersonal factors on the other , also vanishes . Since needs and impulses cannot be said to exist in human social life without specified rules for dealing with them , instinctual needs cannot be considered solely in terms of biological rules , but must also be viewed in terms of their psychosocial significance —that is , as parts of the game .
1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 12, in The Myth of Mental Illness, page 200
(formal) Either of two correlative things . quotations examples
Quotations The actual motivation for this separation was a curious mixture of arrogance and respect : the new arrogance of the administrators abroad who faced ‘backward populations ’ or ‘lower breeds ’ found its correlative in the respect of old -fashioned statesmen at home who felt that no nation had the right to impose its law upon a foreign people .
1951, Hannah Arendt, “The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie”, in The Origins of Totalitarianism (A Harvest/HBJ Book), new edition, San Diego, Calif., New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1973, part 2 (Imperialism), page 131