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Not interaction's weaker cousin — it's what happens when things change each other back.
means The way two or more things act on each other, each shifting in response to the other's moves.
from A 19th-century coinage built from the prefix 'inter-' (between, among) plus 'play' — in the sense of free, mutual movement, like the 'play' in a rope or a mechanism, the bit of give that lets parts move against each other. Not children's play, but the older sense of things moving freely in relation to one another.
- vs interaction
- interaction can be one-way; interplay never is
- etymology
- borrowed from stage directions, originally about actors
- favorite habitat
- light and shadow, nature and nurture, jazz solos
- key test
- if nothing bounces back, it is not interplay