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binarist

noun

Etymology

From binary + -ist.

  1. derived from bīnī
  2. derived from bīnārius
  3. suffixed as binarist — “binary + ist”

Definitions

  1. One who believes in binarism or in a binary.

    • Gender binarists believe that everybody is either male or female, with no middle ground.

  2. Binaristic

    Binaristic; exhibiting or advocating binarism.

    • While these modes of Chineseness are often, in practice, complementary, recent analyses have tended to frame them in more binarist terms.
    • While Kohler's text is more binarist, circumscribed and pessimistic, Behr's text offers readers an understanding of the anxieties, hypocrisies, choices and complicities which soiled all under apartheid; […]
    • […] Potter became disillusioned with the avant-garde as a filmic mode for political and/ or feminist goals, and with Orlando aimed at a more comprehensible narrative and a less binarist conception of gender.

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