associative.

1. Based on or involving links between ideas, experiences or responses.

2. Having the property that regrouping an operation on successive elements does not change its result.

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Words that belong together

• associative learning
• associative memory

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Associative learning connected the signal with an expected event under the experimental conditions.

Associative memory linked the remembered place with a recurring sound.

Usage notes

Primary category: analysis / argumentation / evidence. Forms: Relational adjective; ordinary degree comparison only where a meaningful characteristic is intended. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: effect assessment, evidence qualification, conditional reasoning, method comparison. Disciplines: argumentation, research interpretation, analytical writing. Commonness: moderately common.