Associations to the word «Dichotomy»
Noun
- Fallacy
- Modernity
- Continuum
- Homosexual
- Idealism
- Paradox
- Dsm
- Distinction
- Dilemma
- Np
- Primitive
- Rationality
- Gender
- Critique
- Reject
- Deva
- Sociologist
- Schizophrenia
- Semantic
- Kant
- Grit
- Parole
- Articulation
- Semantics
- Tenet
- Gesellschaft
- Discourse
- Descartes
- Plato
- Natural
- Hemisphere
- Competence
- Evil
- Cate
- Private
- Hierarchy
- Phonology
- Opposite
- Whore
- Notion
- Bureaucracy
- Aristotle
- Nietzsche
- Theorem
- Assumption
- Theorist
- Public
- Insider
- Terminology
- Ism
- Formulation
- Linguistics
- Ethic
- Logic
- Dewey
- Paradigm
- Concept
- Ethics
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
DICHOTOMY, noun. A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division.
DICHOTOMY, noun. Such a division involving apparently incompatible or opposite principles; a duality.
DICHOTOMY, noun. (logic) The division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive, as the division of man into white and not white.
DICHOTOMY, noun. (biology) (taxonomy) The division of a genus into two species; a division into two subordinate parts.
DICHOTOMY, noun. (astronomy) A phase of the moon when it appears half lit and half dark, as at the quadratures.
DICHOTOMY, noun. (biology) Successive division and subdivision; successive bifurcation, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body into two parts as it proceeds from its origin.
DICHOTOMY, noun. (biology) A fork (bifurcation) in a stem or vein.
Dictionary definition
DICHOTOMY, noun. Being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture".
Wise words
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one
another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute
truth.