relativeness

Quality of comparison

Relativeness is the quality of being relative—of existing in relation to something else rather than absolutely.

The term appears in philosophical and scientific contexts where relationships matter more than fixed values: The relativeness of moral judgments troubled him.

Relativity is the more common noun form.

comparative

comparison

Assessment of similarities

inferior · greater · lesser · higher · lower · more · less · comparable · proportional · corresponding

connection

association

Group with shared aim

correspondence · relevance · pertinence · bearing · reference · regard · respect · context · dependence · contingency

kinship

family

Related people together

ancestors · descendants · lineage · heritage · bloodline · clan · genealogy · offspring · nephew · niece

physics

Einstein

Byword for genius

frame · reference · observer · simultaneity · relativistic · Lorentz · inertial · velocity · gravity · curvature

Opposites
dependence on context or comparison

relativenessabsoluteness

Total, unqualified nature

unconditionality · independence · self-sufficiency · autonomy · fixedness

stability of standards or values

relativenessabsoluteness

Total, unqualified nature

universality · invariability · fixedness · objectivity · permanence

philosophical or epistemological stance

relativenessabsolutism

Unrestricted governmental authority

universality · objectivity · objectiveness · universal truth · dogmatism

Family

related, relation, relate, relationship, relative, relatives, relations, unrelated, relatively

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