Correlative

Origin

en + -correlate + ive or

Full definition of correlative

Adjective

1. Mutually related; corresponding.
• 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., The Myth of Mental Illness Chapter 12, 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

1. (formal) Either of two correlative things.
• Arendt Totalitarianism|page=131|passage=The actual motivation for this separation was a curious mixture of arrogance and respect: the new arrogance of the administrators abroad who faced ‘backward populations’ or ‘lower breeds’ found its correlative in the respect of old-fashioned statesmen at home who felt that no nation had the right to impose its law upon a foreign people.
2. (grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbial form

Derived terms

• objective correlative