different between relationship vs noosphere

English

Etymology

From relation +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???le??(?)n??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???le???n???p/
• Hyphenation: re?la?tion?ship

Noun

relationship (plural relationships)

1. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
3. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
4. A romantic or sexual involvement.
   • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News

     I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage.

   • 2000, April 8, Dorthea Straus, "Oates on Marilyn: Men, drugs, tragedy", The Baltimore Sun

     Her most satisfying sexual relationship seemed to be a threesome with Charles Chaplin Jr. and Eddy Robinson Jr., the spurned sons of famous film fathers.

5. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
6. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Hyponyms

• joking relationship

Derived terms

• entity-relationship diagram
• entity-relationship model
• relationship anarchy
• relationshipless
• relationshiply
• relationshippy
• relationshopping

Translations

See also

• relate
• relation
• relative

English

Etymology

French noösphere, from Ancient Greek ???? (nóos, “mind, spirit”) + Ancient Greek ?????? (sphaîra, “ball, globe”).

Surface analysis is nous (“mind”) +? -sphere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n??.?sf??/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?no?.?sf???/

Noun

noosphere (plural noospheres)

1. A theoretical stage of evolutionary development, associated with consciousness, the mind, and personal relationships (often with reference to the writings of Teilhard de Chardin).

Related terms

• See: nous#Related terms

Translations