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bipolarity

bipolarity

8.0
A situation that shows two opposite qualities
  • noun
  • /ˌbaɪˈpoʊlærɪti/
translation icon : bipolaridad
  • The essay discussed the bipolarity present in economic policies, highlighting the tension between conservative and liberal approaches.

Examples

  • Moreover, no other interrelationships among the adjective descriptors displayed any evidence of bipolarity.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Bipolarity of the Constructs of Optimism and Pessimism

    Academic text (1993)
  • Jesus' humanity comprises but a single pole of the Chalcedonian bipolarity, the mystery of the Incarnation: God present with us.

    Academic text (1994)
  • A more nuanced understanding of this social arena will move transnationalism away from a strict bipolarity and closer to a more complex notion of multipolarity.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The strongest relation between any pair of optimism and pessimism descriptors was r = -0.42 (for looking forward toward/apprehension about the future), hardly supportive of bipolarity.

    Academic text (1993)
  • As translocal institutions, FE colleges in the UK and CCs in the US are treated as analytical counterparts in an approach that overwrites the limitations of an either/or bipolarity.

    Academic text (2014)
  • For example, in Myers et al. (1998), the low-to-high test/retest range is 84 percent to 96 percent agreement of the bipolarities over a four-week period for Form M.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The bipolarity of light and darkness is a common theme in many religions.

  • In psychology, bipolarity can refer to the contrasting extremes of a person's mood.

Synonyms

duality
vsbipolarity
9 7.4

A state in which something has two different or opposite parts

focuses on the general state of possessing two opposite features
polarity
vsbipolarity
5 7.0

Two opposite ideas or feelings, for example hope and despair

is the underlying condition of having two opposite characteristics
polar opposition
vsbipolarity
6.7

A clear contrast between two very different ends that shows points between them

refers to the simple presence of two opposite conditions rather than degrees

How Contrasting

bipolarity
8.0
contrast
179 2.8

Surface Forms

bipolarity singular
bipolarities plural

Morphology

bipolarity = bipolar (transparent) = bi + polar + ity

Nominalization of 'bipolar' with '-ity' yields a noun denoting the state/quality of having two contrasting characteristics; the derivation is semantically regular.

Etymology

Bipolarity comes from bi- 'two', as in bicycle, and polar, from pole 'end' or 'side', so think of anything with two opposite parts, like a magnet with a North and South pole. So, bipolarity means having two opposite or contrasting qualities.