dichotomy
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9.5
- noun
- /daɪˈkɒtəmi/
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dicotomía
- There is a clear dichotomy in her opinions about travel: she loves to visit new places but hates flying.
- a false dichotomy
- an ideological dichotomy
- subject-object dichotomy
And so we go through life with this dichotomy of persona and shadow.
- And so we go through life with this dichotomy of persona and shadow.
- We talk about a very important concept, the dichotomy of control.
- And I think having this work life dichotomy suggests that actually you are just working to live.
- I don't know, like that's the big dichotomy that we tend to enforce.
- And I entered in a dichotomy between Creole and basal.
- I mean, when you think about the dichotomy there in his mind.
- So there's such a need for this dichotomy almost to be held well, is there?
- And it's a, it's a dichotomy that we can't seem to fuse together, right?
- This notion that there's a dichotomy for everything is, excuse me?
- So I think it's it's a very interesting sort of dichotomy of how much is too much.
- But we have to learn to fuse the dichotomies and infusing the dichotomies and blending the want.
- Can you talk a little bit about that sort of dichotomy within, you know, the progressive world?
- So the the point of this dichotomy is goes right to the work that I've done.
Examples
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And I think having this work life dichotomy suggests that actually you are just working to live.
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The dichotomy of good and evil.
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We talk about a very important concept, the dichotomy of control.
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Another one is the dichotomy of control.
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I think that all the countries in Latin America have a dichotomy between the capital cities.
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And so that was tough for me to handle, the dichotomy between those roles.
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Can you talk a little bit about that sort of dichotomy within, you know, the progressive world?
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The concept is still caught in the dichotomies of the receiving and sending countries.
Academic text (1999) -
It was a wonderful location, and again you see this blue-red dichotomy.
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Today, I hope we won't remain divided from one another by the false dichotomy of humans-slash-animals.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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1.7
A difference between two groups or amounts
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3.5
A difference that shows how two things or people are not the same
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2.8
A clear difference between two or more things when compared
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7.4
A state in which something has two different or opposite parts
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4.1
A clear border between two ideas, groups, or situations
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5.8
Two opposite ideas or groups
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7.0
Two opposite ideas or feelings, for example hope and despair
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3.7
A clear and strong difference between two things
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8.1
A difference between two things, often between versions of a file
Antonyms
- Specialized
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7.2
A range of things where nearby parts seem the same and the ends are very different
How Divided
Surface Forms
Morphology
dichotomy = di + chotomy
The prefix 'di-' suggests 'two', which gives a clue, but the second element is a Greek combining form (related to '-tomy' meaning 'cutting') that is not familiar to most learners, so the full sense 'division into two parts' is only partly inferable.
Etymology
Dichotomy comes from Greek parts di- 'two' and -tomy 'to cut', so it literally means 'cut in two'. A helpful memory is to see the same -tomy in anatomy (studying the body by cutting), which shows why a dichotomy is a clear split into two opposite parts.