Difference between Interconnected and Interrelated

What is the difference between Interconnected and Interrelated?

Interconnected as an adjective is intertwined; connected at multiple points or levels while Interrelated as an adjective is having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.

Interconnected

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: intertwined; connected at multiple points or levels

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To connect to one another.

Example sentence: Food trends have been around as long as people have had the ability to choose between different things to eat, but the modern, interconnected media has made food trends a viral phenomenon. Once upon a time, it was just a few newspapers and a few select gourmet magazines that were writing about food. Today, it's every single publication.

Interrelated

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.

Example sentence: The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

We hope you now know whether to use Interconnected or Interrelated in your sentence.

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