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Dichotomy   /daɪkˈɑtəmi/   Listen
Dichotomy

noun
1.
Being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses.  Synonym: duality.






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"Dichotomy" Quotes from Famous Books



... spent my enthusiasms over the colour-schemes of Decamps and Fortuny, to the Paris of the revolutionists, Manet, Degas, Monet, now seems a life long. But time fugues precipitately through the land of art. In reality both periods overlap; the dichotomy is spiritual, ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker

... and space, seeing the latter as an attribute of God through which He is able to contain a finite world limited in space as well as in time. In writing that "this infinite space because of its infinity is distinct from matter,"[7] More reveals the direction of his conclusion; the dichotomy it embodies ...
— Democritus Platonissans • Henry More



Words linked to "Dichotomy" :   categorisation, classification, dichotomize, duality, categorization, dichotomous



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