Associations to the word «Dichotomy»
Noun
- Socrates
- Exclusion
- Reality
- Spirituality
- Myth
- Dynamic
- Yin
- Dementia
- Thinking
- Sphere
- Psychiatry
- Ideology
- Inequality
- Contracting
- Privacy
- Capitalism
- Philosophy
- Metaphor
- Context
- Hume
- Theory
- Separation
- Belief
- Extreme
- Perspective
- Social
- Differentiation
- Cen
- Spiritual
- Preference
- Category
- Outsider
- Civilization
- Ordering
- Achilles
- Phenomenon
- Clear
- Syntax
- Topography
- Domination
- Feminism
- Consciousness
- Viewpoint
- Elite
- Complexity
- Ritual
- Absolute
- Nature
- Abstract
- Boundary
- Rhetoric
- Variable
- Identity
- Philosopher
- Strauss
- Ethnicity
- Bad
- Weber
- Depiction
- Religion
- Hypothesis
- Contrast
- Putnam
Adjective
Wiktionary
DICHOTOMY, noun. A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division.
DICHOTOMY, noun. Such a division involving apparently incompatible or opposite principles; a duality.
DICHOTOMY, noun. (logic) The division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive, as the division of man into white and not white.
DICHOTOMY, noun. (biology) (taxonomy) The division of a genus into two species; a division into two subordinate parts.
DICHOTOMY, noun. (astronomy) A phase of the moon when it appears half lit and half dark, as at the quadratures.
DICHOTOMY, noun. (biology) Successive division and subdivision; successive bifurcation, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body into two parts as it proceeds from its origin.
DICHOTOMY, noun. (biology) A fork (bifurcation) in a stem or vein.
Dictionary definition
DICHOTOMY, noun. Being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture".
Wise words
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.