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nondualistic

nondualistic

1 9.5
Seeing the world as one whole rather than as two separate parts
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˌduːəˈlɪstɪk/
  • Formal
: no dualista
  • The artist's nondualistic approach allowed her to view joy and sorrow as inseparable parts of life.
  • nondualistic Vedanta
  • nondualistic account

Examples

  • For example, nondualistic Vedanta holds that the individual self (jiva) is illusory and that our true self (atman) is identical with reality (Brahman).

    Academic text (1990)
  • In nondualistic contexts, time is not linear, but a cyclical elaboration of the eternal present.

    Academic text (2000)
  • The Humanly Human: A Nondualistic Resolution to the Human Problem

    Academic text (2011)
  • Rather, it is the opening of a new matrix: the nondualistic actualization and expression of True Self.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The "humanly human" is a nondualistic resolution to the human problem of the self-seeking ego.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The aim of my essay will be to give a nondualistic account of knowing more radical than both objectivism and its after-image, relativism.

    Academic text (1998)
  • My suggestion is that a more holistic and nondualistic spirituality is going to be more naturalistic and more civic than we have conceived it in the West.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Faithorn suggests a third, nondualistic approach to ethnography: the dialectic of the cultural and intercultural perspective is resolved into the transcultural perspective.

    Academic text (1992)
  • In previous sections, I have focused on works that establish Beauvoir's theoretical distance from Sartre and that draw from her a nondualistic and nonreductionist account of feminine embodiment.

    Academic text (2005)
  • The basic methodologies of Buber and Hisamatsu are radically nondualistic, both philosophically and practically. That is, both of their methods are a direct expression and manifestation of the desired result: human wholeness.

    Academic text (2011)

Antonyms

dualistic
  • Specialized
3 8.2

Relating to a belief that reality has two opposite parts, for example mind and body

Surface Forms

nondualistic positive

Morphology

nondualistic = dualistic (transparent) = non + dual + istic

Formed by the productive negating prefix 'non-' attached to the adjective 'dualistic' (dual + -istic), so the meaning 'not dualistic' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Nondualistic is built from the parts non- meaning 'not' and dual meaning 'two', with -istic to make it an adjective. So a nondualistic view is 'not two' and means seeing things as one single, connected whole.