nexal
adjEtymology From nexus + -al.
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Relating to a nexus.
- In the nexal family the unity of the group is achieved through the experience by each of the group, and the danger to each person (since the person is essential to the nexus, and the nexus is essential to the person) is the dissolution or dispersion of 'the family'.1967, R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise:
- Derived terms
- perinexal