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dualist en · ADJ

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-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English dualist From dual + -ist.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or supporting dualism.
   • She has a strictly dualist approach to morality.

dualist en · NOUN

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-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English dualist From dual + -ist.

Meanings

1. Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil.
   • The Manicheans were dualists.
2. Any person who believes in or argues for the duality of something.
   • Regarding the second option, suppose that a substance dualist who is also a theist accounts for the conceptual possibility of a mental difference by claiming that God decided to put a soul in one individual but not the other. 2007 February 7, Jeff Wisdom, “Base property exemplification and mixed worlds: remarks on the Shafer-Landau/Mabrito exchange”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 138, number 3, →DOI:

Forms

Deriveds

nondualist · antidualist · dualistic

Relateds

dualism

Translations (6)

ar ثَنَوِيّ (person supporting dualism) · pl dualista (person supporting dualism) · pl dualistka (person supporting dualism) · el δυϊστής (person supporting dualism) · cs dualista (person supporting dualism) · ca dualista (person supporting dualism)