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Respective vs Correlative - What's the difference?

respective | correlative |

As adjectives the difference between respective and correlative

is that respective is relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own while correlative is mutually related; corresponding.

As a noun correlative is

either of two correlative things.

respective

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own.
  • They returned to their respective places of abode.
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  • (obsolete) Noticing with attention; careful; wary.
  • * Archbishop Sandys
  • If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not refuse this charge.
  • (obsolete) Looking toward; having reference to; relative, not absolute.
  • the respective connections of society
  • (obsolete) Fitted to awaken respect.
  • * 1599 , , IV. iv. 192:
  • What should it be that he respects in her / But I can make respective in myself,
  • (obsolete) Rendering respect; respectful; regardful.
  • * Chapman
  • With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands.
  • * Lord Burleigh
  • With thy equals familiar, yet respective .

    Synonyms

    * (relating to particular persons or things) corresponding, relevant, specific

    Derived terms

    * respectiveness * irrespective

    correlative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • mutually related; corresponding
  • * '>citation
  • If we reinterpret these phenomena in terms of a consistently
    game-playing model of behavior, the need to distinguish be-
    tween primary and secondary gains disappears. The correla-
    tive
    necessity to estimate the relative significance of physio-
    logical 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, in-
    stinctual needs cannot be considered solely in terms of biologi-
    cal rules, but must also be viewed in terms of their psycho-
    social significance—that is, as parts of the game.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of two correlative things.
  • (grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbal form, in Esperanto regularly formed, indicating 'which?', 'that', 'some', 'none', and 'every', as applied to people, things, type, place, manner, reason, time, or quantity, as: kiu'' ‘who’ (which person?), ''iu'' ‘someone’ (some person), ''tie'' ‘there’ (that place), '' ‘everywhere’ (all places), etc.