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associational en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin associātiōbor. English association Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English associational From association + -al.

Meanings

1. Of, pertaining to or deriving from association.
   • Instead of making a point, Roth shows us a detail, but a detail packed with layers of associational meaning. 1988 October 7, Justin Hayford, “Communion and Confusion”, in Chicago Reader:
   • The distinction between […] southern Italians, who are amoral familists, and Americans, who are generally community-oriented and associational. 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 6, in Illusion of Order:
   • How could I create such complex and wide schemes of associational thought and feeling, such filigreed webs of dreams and politics, without being mistaken for a “smuggler of reaction,” “an ideological confusionist,” or “an individualistic and dangerous element”? 1940, Richard Wright, Native Son, New York: Harper and Row, published 1966, Introduction, p. xxii:

Forms

Deriveds

associationality · associationally · associational freedom

Translations (9)

pl asocjacyjny (of, pertaining to or deriving from association) · pt associativo (of, pertaining to or deriving from association) · fi järjestöllinen (of, pertaining to or deriving from association) · ru ассоциати́вный (of, pertaining to or deriving from association) · ro asociațional (of, pertaining to or deriving from association) · it associazionistico (of, pertaining to or deriving from association) · vi liên tưởng (of, pertaining to or deriving from association) · fr associatif (of, pertaining to or deriving from association) · ro asociațial (of, pertaining to or deriving from association)