mutuality

[myoo-choo-al-i-tee]

noun

1. condition or quality of being mutual; reciprocity; mutual dependence.

Other Word Forms

• nonmutuality noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of mutuality¹

First recorded in 1580–90; mutual + -ity

Example Sentences

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.”

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At root, it is about the mutuality of political neutrality: the military’s obligation to be apolitical and the concomitant obligation of civilian officials not to politicize the military.

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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.”

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It took cannibalism and surviving the wilderness for the Yellowjackets to arrive where we are today: wary of each other, opting for individualism rather than mutuality.

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For mutuality as well as for dignity and respect.

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Related Words

• reciprocity 
• sincerity