complementarity

1. 1.

   a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities

   Broaderungradable opposition
2. 2.

   the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other

   “the complementarity of the sexes”

   Broaderreciprocality

Other forms of complementarity

plural

complementarities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about complementarity

What does complementarity mean?

complementarity means "a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in complementarity?

complementarity has 6 syllables: com-ple-men-ta-ri-ty. The stress falls on "ta".

Is complementarity a common word?

complementarity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.