Dualist

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil.

    "The Manicheans were dualists."

  2. 2
    an adherent of dualism wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or supporting dualism. not-comparable

    "She has a strictly dualist approach to morality."

Synonyms

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adherentdeistmonotheistphilosopherpolytheisttheist

Example

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"She has a strictly dualist approach to morality."

Etymology

From dual + -ist.

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