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Reciprocation vs Mutuality - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between reciprocation and mutuality

is that reciprocation is the act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness while mutuality is the property of being mutual.

reciprocation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.
  • Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; oscillation.
  • *1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
  • *:... the same pendulum alwayes maketh its reciprocations in equall times .

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    mutuality

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The property of being mutual.
  • * The mutuality of mutually-assured-destruction is key to its function as a deterent.