relativity

Meaning

Noun

• The state of being relative to something else; the absence of universally applicable rules or standards; relativism; an instance of this.
• An evaluation of the similarities and differences between things; a comparison; hence, a difference in position or status between things; a disparity.

Origin

• . Sense 2.1 (“reliance of the nature of physical phenomena on the relative motion between an observer and the thing observed”) is a translation of German Relativität used in the works of the German-American theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
• Morphologically relative + -ity