dualism

Definition

Duality; the condition of being double.

Etymology

From dual + -ism.

Example Sentences

• "By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative"
• "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."

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