mutuality
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- nonmutuality noun
Etymology
Origin of mutuality
Example Sentences
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In its most stripped-down definition, mutuality is about knowing that in a relationship both people have needs and that each person’s needs matter.
From Slate • Mar. 23, 2025
In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, King emphasized how we are “caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
From Salon • Jan. 15, 2025
Giving Tuesday, as one of the movement’s leaders put it, promotes “generosity not as a benevolence that the haves show to the have-nots but rather an expression of mutuality, solidarity and reciprocity.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023
That there is a spirit of mutuality and solidarity, and that we’re inclusive and that we also share resources.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022
Perhaps Blaine resented this mutuality, something primally African from which he felt excluded.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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