dualism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Duality; the condition of being double. countable,uncountable
    — By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative
  2. The view that the world consists of, or is explicable in terms of, two fundamental principles, such as mind and matter or good and evil. countable,uncountable
  3. The belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces, such as good and evil; the belief that man has two basic natures, the physical and the spiritual. countable,uncountable
    — The same conflict between the monism of temporal theorists and the dualism of ecclesiastical thinkers—the same opposition of organic to symbiotic union—occurred in the ninth century.
  4. The legal doctrine that international law must be transposed into domestic law to have effect. countable,uncountable
  5. The theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and having opposite chemical or electrical affinities. countable,dated,uncountable

词形变化

dualisms plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antidualism Cartesian dualism Gelasian dualism German dualism predicate dualism property dualism substance dualism
相关词
dual duality monism nondualism

词源

Etymology tree
English dual
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English dualism
From dual + -ism.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary