Bipolarist
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who views something in terms of two exclusive categories.
"Plato was a bipolarist in his exposition of the "unity of opposites" in such seeming bifurcations as the One and Many, Identity and Difference, Same and Other, True and False, Being and Non- Being, Rest and Motion, Permanence and Change."
- 1 Pertaining to bipolarism.
"In retrospect, what seems principally to have been lacking at this time was any real understanding, or perhaps rather acceptance, among the ENDC nuclear powers of the actual gait of proliferation, and of its relationship to what the still prevailing bipolarist philosophy considered to be the 'central strategic balance'."
Example
More examples"In retrospect, what seems principally to have been lacking at this time was any real understanding, or perhaps rather acceptance, among the ENDC nuclear powers of the actual gait of proliferation, and of its relationship to what the still prevailing bipolarist philosophy considered to be the 'central strategic balance'."
Etymology
From bipolar + -ist.
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