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binarism

noun

Etymology

From binary + -ism.

  1. derived from bīnī
  2. derived from bīnārius
  3. suffixed as binarism — “binary + ism”

Definitions

  1. A pair of opposites

    A pair of opposites; a specific binary.

    • the binarism of male and female; the binarism of North and South

  2. Belief in, or a mode of thought predicated on, a binary

    Belief in, or a mode of thought predicated on, a binary; belief that something (for example, gender) is a binary.

    • I am interested in discussing some of the tensions and contradictions of Carey's distinction between the ritual and transmission models of communication and in focusing upon those instances where his binarism breaks down.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for binarism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA