the.com/compatibility
Not sharing flaws, but enjoying how the other person's flaws annoy you.
means The quality of two things (or people) being able to coexist, work together, or get along without conflict.
from Traces back to Latin compati — 'to suffer with' — from com- ('together') plus pati ('to suffer, endure'), the same root that gives us 'patient' and 'passion.' Medieval Latin compatibilis described things that could coexist or tolerate each other. So the word's bones literally mean 'able to suffer together' — a fittingly honest origin for a term that, as any couple knows, is less about matching perfectly and more about enduring each other well.
- myth
- opposites attract less than shared values do
- predictor
- conflict repair matters more than conflict frequency
- test
- boredom tolerance together beats excitement compatibility
- software analogy
- same values, different features, still runs