associational

From association +‎ -al.

associational (comparative more associational, superlative most associational)

1. Of, pertaining to or deriving from association.
   • 1940, Richard Wright, Native Son‎^[1], New York: Harper and Row, published 1966, Introduction, p. xxii:

     How could I create such complex and wide schemes of associational thought and feeling, such filigreed webs of dreams and politics, without being mistaken for a “smuggler of reaction,” “an ideological confusionist,” or “an individualistic and dangerous element”?

   • 1988 October 7, Justin Hayford, “Communion and Confusion”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     Instead of making a point, Roth shows us a detail, but a detail packed with layers of associational meaning.

   • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 6, in Illusion of Order:

     The distinction between […] southern Italians, who are amoral familists, and Americans, who are generally community-oriented and associational.

• associationally
• associationality