complementarity

CEFRB2

/ˌkɒmpləmɛnˈtæɹɪti/

noun

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noun
The way two different things complete or improve each other.
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noun
Extra detail
A semantic relationship between two words wherein negative use of one entails the affirmative of the other with no gradability; the relation of binary antonyms.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The idea that physical phenomena may have (mutually contradictory) properties that cannot be observed simultaneously (e.g. wave-particle duality).
The state or characteristic of being complementary.

In context

We need to recognize the complementarity between art and science.
"Synergy is one of the most overused words in the English language, but there is a tremendous complementarity to these organizations."

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"Synergy is one of the most overused words in the English language, but there is a tremendous complementarity to these organizations."
1987 April 2, Kenneth N. Gilpin, “2 Forecasting Firms to Merge”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Apr 2014
For complementarity, there are entailments both from affirmative sentences to the corresponding negative sentences (which is what ordinary antonymy allows) and from negative sentences to the corresponding affirmative sentences. [...] That light is on entails That light is not off. That light is not on entails That light is off.
2005, Andrew John Merrison, Aileen Bloomer, Patrick Griffiths, Christopher J. Hall, Introducing Language in Use, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 112

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From complementary + -ity.