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Dependency

Dependency Meaning & Definition
Dependency Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dependency?

[n] lack of independence or self-sufficiency
[n] being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dependency: addiction | dependance | dependence | habituation

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dependency:

See Also | contingency | drug addiction | helplessness | physiological condition | physiological state | reliance | state | subordination | white plague

Dependency In Webster's Dictionary

\De*pend"en*cy\, n.; pl. {Dependencies}. 1. State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust. Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other. --Sir J. Reynolds. So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England. --Bacon. 2. A thing hanging down; a dependence. 3. That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like. This earth and its dependencies. --T. Burnet. Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances. --Locke. 4. A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America. Note: Dependence is more used in the abstract, and dependency in the concrete. The latter is usually restricted in meaning to 3 and 4.

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