bipolarity
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- noun
- /ˌbaɪˈpoʊlærɪti/
- The essay discussed the bipolarity present in economic policies, highlighting the tension between conservative and liberal approaches.
Examples
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Moreover, no other interrelationships among the adjective descriptors displayed any evidence of bipolarity.
Academic text (1993) -
Bipolarity of the Constructs of Optimism and Pessimism
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Jesus' humanity comprises but a single pole of the Chalcedonian bipolarity, the mystery of the Incarnation: God present with us.
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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.
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The bipolarity of light and darkness is a common theme in many religions.
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In psychology, bipolarity can refer to the contrasting extremes of a person's mood.
Synonyms
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A state in which something has two different or opposite parts
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Two opposite ideas or feelings, for example hope and despair
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A clear contrast between two very different ends that shows points between them
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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.