Dictionary

binarity en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English binary Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English binarity From binary + -ity.

Meanings

1. The representation of something as a pair (or set) of binary oppositions.
   • The binarity of even an obvious pair of opposites like male:female rests on a restricted domain that excludes hermaphrodites, beings with no sex organs (for whatever reason) and so on. While binarity is undoubtedly an essential feature of oppositeness, it is not, on its own, sufficient. There are many situations where a domain is construed with only two members, but oppositeness seems to be absent. 2004, William Croft, D. Alan Cruse, Cognitive Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 165:
2. The state of existing as a binary system.

Forms

Antonyms

non-binarity

Relateds

binariness

Translations (2)

de Binarität (representation as a pair) · sv binaritet (representation as a pair)