Responsive vs Collaborative - What's the difference?
responsive | collaborative |
Answering, replying or responding.
Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
Using antiphons; antiphonal.
Susceptible to the feelings of others.
(obsolete) Suited to something else; correspondent.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) responsible
Of, relating to, or done by collaboration.
(management) An organized group of people or entities who collaborate towards a particular goal
* {{quote-book, 2004, Ann Page, Keeping Patients Safe
, passage=These collaboratives would consist of a team of managers, researchers, and consultants from a variety of organizations whose aim would be to better understand problems in effective health care management
As adjectives the difference between responsive and collaborative
is that responsive is answering, replying or responding while collaborative is of, relating to, or done by collaboration.As a noun collaborative is
(management) an organized group of people or entities who collaborate towards a particular goal.responsive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
- (Jeremy Taylor)
Antonyms
* nonresponsive * unresponsiveDerived terms
* responsively * responsiveness * responsorial ----collaborative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- No need to thank me - it was a collaborative effort.
Derived terms
* collaboratively * collaborativenessReferences
* * *Noun
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