Timeline for Term for a type of relationship that two parties benefit from
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| Sep 6, 2018 at 7:56 | comment | added | arboviral | @doktorJ I certainly agree most of the examples I have seen are biological, but I have seen it used for creative partnerships as well. A Google search for "symbiotic" and "creatitivity" shows a lot of examples. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 7:49 | comment | added | Pierre Arlaud | @talrnu you'll have to only count occurrences which refer to interpersonal and/or human relationships, as stated in this answer. Then the actual count would probably differ | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 22:36 | comment | added | talrnu | Every Google Ngram search I could think of indicates this is incorrect - the occurrence of most permutations of "mutually beneficial" is statistically irrelevant to equivalent permutations of "symbiotic". Where are you drawing this conclusion from? | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 16:29 | comment | added | Henry | mutually advantageous is a similar possibility | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 16:27 | comment | added | Doktor J | This is a better general term. Symbiotic generally refers to biology where two species have established a mutually beneficial relationship (it can be used in other scenarios, but I don't believe is widely used as such). Synergistic refers less to the benefit each individual party receives, and is more specific to the combined output of that relationship (which may not directly benefit either party). | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 12:35 | comment | added | colsw | This is the best in my opinion for everyday usage, while symbiotic isn't esoteric, it's more scientific English than everyday English in my opinion, and gets across the same information. | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 18:46 | history | answered | Esco | CC BY-SA 4.0 |