The state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else

Being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)

In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data.

Independence is a fundamental notion in probability theory, as in statistics and the theory of stochastic processes.

Behavioral addiction, process addiction, or non-substance-related disorder is a form of addiction that involves a compulsion to engage in a rewarding non-substance-related behavior – sometimes called a natural reward – despite any negative consequences to the person's physical, mental, social or financial well-being.

An outbuilding, sometimes called an accessory building or a dependency, is a building that is part of a residential or agricultural complex but detached from the main sleeping and eating areas.