bicameralism
Syllables: bi·cam·er·al·ism
bicameralism noun: the practice of dividing legislative bodies into two chambers with complementary powers and limitations designed to provide checks and balances against one another.
Noun
bicameralism (usually uncountable, plural bicameralisms)
- The practice of dividing legislative bodies into two chambers with complementary powers and limitations designed to provide checks and balances against one another.
- Ambiguous misnomer for Julian Jaynes's theory of bicamerality, probably never used by Jaynes, rarely used in academic literature based on his work, but often found informally (compare bicameral mind and bicameral mentality)
- Coleridge...could not revert to bicameralism either.1978, Edward Proffitt, "Romanticism, Bicamerality, and the Evolution of the Brain", The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 9, No.1, reprinted with permission in Kuijsten, 2016, page 134.
- As a result of this bicameralism, they were not conscious as we are today, and had no unified sense of self.2016, Susan G. Josephson, From Idolatry to Advertising: Visual Art and Contemporary Culture, →ISBN
bicameralism meaning in Hindi and Indonesian
bicameralism in Hindi
- bicameralism
- द्विसदनीयता dvisdanīytā
bicameralism in Indonesian
- principle of dividing legislative body into two groups
- bikameralisme
Forms of bicameralism
| plural | bicameralisms |
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Origin of bicameralism
From bicameral + -ism.
Questions about bicameralism
- What does bicameralism mean?
- Bicameralism means the practice of dividing legislative bodies into two chambers with complementary powers and limitations designed to provide checks and balances against one another.
- What is bicameralism in Hindi?
- Bicameralism in Hindi is द्विसदनीयता (dvisdanīytā). See Bicameralism meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bicameralism?
- Bicameralism is a noun.
- What is the plural of bicameralism?
- The plural of bicameralism is bicameralisms.
Words near bicameralism in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bicameralism (page history and authors); द्विसदनीयता (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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