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dualist

adj

Etymology

From dual + -ist.

  1. borrowed from dualis — “two”
  2. suffixed as dualist — “dual + ist”

Definitions

  1. Of or supporting dualism.

    • She has a strictly dualist approach to morality.

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

    • The Manicheans were dualists.

  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.

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Derived

antidualist, dualistic, nondualist

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