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binarist en · ADJ

Etymology

From binary + -ist.

Meanings

1. Binaristic; exhibiting or advocating binarism.
   • While these modes of Chineseness are often, in practice, complementary, recent analyses have tended to frame them in more binarist terms. 2006, Christopher Vasantkumar, Ethnicity's Entanglements: Intersections of Minzu and Development in China's "Little Tibet":
   • […] Potter became disillusioned with the avant-garde as a filmic mode for political and/ or feminist goals, and with Orlando aimed at a more comprehensible narrative and a less binarist conception of gender. 2009, Sarah Street, British National Cinema, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 216:
   • The different ways of mythologizing Tolstoy indicate a return to more binarist modes of thinking on the cultural plane, which threatens the dialectical relationship between the universal and the particular (Adorno 1991). 2018, Vlad Strukov, Sarah Hudspith, Russian Culture in the Age of Globalization, Routledge, →ISBN:
   • While Kohler's text is more binarist, circumscribed and pessimistic, Behr's text offers readers an understanding of the anxieties, hypocrisies, choices and complicities which soiled all under apartheid; […] 2007, Cheryl Stobie, Somewhere in the double rainbow: representations of bisexuality in post-apartheid novels, Univ. of Natal Pr., →ISBN:

binarist en · NOUN

Etymology

From binary + -ist.

Meanings

1. One who believes in binarism or in a binary.
   • Gender binarists believe that everybody is either male or female, with no middle ground.

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