MEANING
The ways in which two or more factors affect and respond to one another.
Use it for
explaining how individual and institutional factors affect each other; analyzing a relationship that works in both directions; distinguishing interaction from simple co-occurrenceNames mutual influence among factors rather than merely their simultaneous presence. Academic functions: Causation / Relationships, Synthesis.
Words that belong together
- the interplay between structure and agency
- a complex interplay of factors
- the interplay of incentives and norms
On the page
The account emphasizes the interplay between market incentives and social expectations.
The novel’s irony emerges from the interplay of the narrator’s claims and the reader’s knowledge.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- interplay
Usage notes
Uncountable. Commonly the interplay between/of + interacting factors. Do not routinely pluralize it. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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