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dualism 音标拼音: [d'uəl ,ɪzəm] n. 双重性,二元论,二神教 双重性,二元论,二神教 dualism n 1: the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter ( or mind and body), or good and evilDualism \ Du" al* ism\, n. [ Cf. F. dualisme.] State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction; as: ( a) ( Philos.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit. ( Theol.) ( b) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil. ( c) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate. ( d) ( Physiol.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other. [ 1913 Webster] An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole. -- Emerson. [ 1913 Webster] 50 Moby Thesaurus words for " dualism": Janus, acosmism, allotheism, ambiguity, ambivalence, anthropolatry, anthropomorphism, anthropotheism, autotheism, biformity, bifurcation, conjugation, cosmotheism, deism, dichotomy, ditheism, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, dyotheism, equivocality, halving, henotheism, hylotheism, irony, monolatry, monotheism, multitheism, myriotheism, pairing, pantheism, physicomorphism, physitheism, pluralism, polarity, polytheism, psychotheism, tetratheism, theism, theopantism, theriotheism, tritheism, twinning, two- facedness, twoness, zootheism
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