dualism
dualism is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 39 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction; as: (a) (Philos.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit. (Theol.) (b) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil. (c) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate. (d) (Physiol.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other. An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole. Emerson.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- biformity
- binary
- binate
- binomial
- biparous
- biplicity
- both
- brace
- bracket
- conduplicate
- conjugate
- conjugation
- couple
- deuce
- double
- doublets
- dual
- dualistic
- duality
- duet
- duplex
- duplicity
- dyad
- dyadic
- gemini
- mate
- one
- other
- pair
- polarity
- span
- tete-a-tete
- the
- twin
- two
- unijugate
- unite
- yoke
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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