Physics. See under (def 2).
the state or fact of being .
relativity of values; relativity of knowledge.
the state or quality of being relative

1834, “fact or condition of being relative” (apparently coined by Coleridge, of God, in “Notes on Waterland’s Vindication of Christ’s Divinity”), from relative (adj.) + -ity. In scientific use, connected to the theory of Albert Einstein (1879-1955), published 1905 (special theory of relativity) and 1915 (general theory of relativity), but the word was used in roughly this sense by J.C. Maxwell in 1876.
General Relativity


relativistic adjective








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