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dual +‎ -ist

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dualist (not comparable)

  1. Of or supporting dualism.
    She has a strictly dualist approach to morality.

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dualist (plural dualists)

  1. Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil.
    The Manicheans were dualists.
  2. Any person who believes in or argues for the duality of something.
    • 2007 February 7, Jeff Wisdom, “Base property exemplification and mixed worlds: remarks on the Shafer-Landau/Mabrito exchange”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 138, number 3, →DOI:
      Regarding the second option, suppose that a substance dualist who is also a theist accounts for the conceptual possibility of a mental difference by claiming that God decided to put a soul in one individual but not the other.

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dualist c (singular definite dualisten, plural indefinite dualister)

  1. dualist

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Borrowed from French dualiste.

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dualist m or n (feminine singular dualistă, masculine plural dualiști, feminine and neuter plural dualiste)

  1. dualistic

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