Definition of "interdependency" [in•ter•de•pend•en•cy]

• A mutual dependence, connection or correlation (noun)

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• "Otherwise, what we call interdependency is really counterdependency, in which people do the opposite to assert their independence, or co-dependency, in which they literally need the other person's weakness to fulfill their need and to justify their own weakness."
• "Logically, the possibility of this kind of interdependency appears to depend on the existence of directed flows of activities between the places that do not extend to other places."
• "As a result, we seek to force trade, win economic contests by colonizing others, ever-increase our share of distant economies, and manufacture a global "interdependency" while labor's clout, democracy, ecology and balance are destroyed."