Reciprocation vs Reciprocity - What's the difference?
reciprocation | reciprocity |
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 .
The characteristic of being reciprocal, e.g. of a relationship between people.
A reciprocal relationship.
A relation of mutual dependence or action or influence.
The mutual exchange of rights, privileges or obligations between nations.
(psychology) The responses of individuals to the actions of others.
As nouns the difference between reciprocation and reciprocity
is that reciprocation is the act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness while reciprocity is the characteristic of being reciprocal, e.g. of a relationship between people.reciprocation
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(reciprocity)- In a friendship, reciprocity occurs where the contribution of each party meets the expectations of the other party.