Dictionary

dualism en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree English dual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English dualism From dual + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Duality; the condition of being double.
   • By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative 2002, Melvyn Stokes, The state of U.S. history, page 74:
2. (countable, uncountable) The view that the world consists of, or is explicable in terms of, two fundamental principles, such as mind and matter or good and evil.
3. (countable, uncountable) The belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces, such as good and evil; the belief that man has two basic natures, the physical and the spiritual.
   • The same conflict between the monism of temporal theorists and the dualism of ecclesiastical thinkers—the same opposition of organic to symbiotic union—occurred in the ninth century. 1964, Karl F. Morrison, Two Kingdoms: Ecclesiology in Carolingian Political Thought, Princeton University Press, page 4:
4. (countable, qualifier:international law, uncountable) The legal doctrine that international law must be transposed into domestic law to have effect.
5. (countable, dated, uncountable) The theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and having opposite chemical or electrical affinities.

Forms

Deriveds

Cartesian dualism · property dualism · predicate dualism · German dualism · Gelasian dualism · antidualism · substance dualism · bundle dualism · epistemological dualism

Relateds

dual · monism · nondualism · duality

Translations (44)

pl dualizm (the condition of being double) · fr dualisme (the condition of being double) · ko 이중성 (the condition of being double) · sh dualizam (the condition of being double) · oc dualitat (the condition of being double) · te ద్వైతము (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · fr dualisme (the belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces) · de Dualismus (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · es dualidad (the condition of being double) · fr dualité (the condition of being double) · es dualismo (the belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces) · tr düalizm (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · oc dualisme (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · oc dualisme (the condition of being double) · oc dualisme (the belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces) · id dualisme (the condition of being double) · fi dualismi (the belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces) · ca dualisme (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · cs dualismus (the belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces) · pl dualizm (the belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces) · ar ثَنَوِيَّة (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · ko 이원론 (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · eo dualismo (the belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces) · ca dualisme (the belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces) · cs dualismus (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · kk дуализм (the condition of being double) · pl dualizm (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · az ikilik (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · sh dualizam (the belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces) · es dualismo (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · ms dualisme (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · tr ikicilik (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · az dualizm (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · nl dualisme (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · hu dualizmus (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · eo dualismo (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · es dualismo (the condition of being double) · fi dualismi (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · sv dualism (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · sh dualizam (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · ar ثَنَوِيَّة (the belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces) · cmn 二元论 (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles) · fi kaksinaisuus (the condition of being double) · th ทวินิยม (the view that the world consists of two fundamental principles)