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bicameralisms

bicameralisms is the plural of bicameralism.

Meaning of bicameralism

Noun

bicameralism (usually uncountable, plural bicameralisms)

  1. (usually) The practice of dividing legislative bodies into two chambers with complementary powers and limitations designed to provide checks and balances against one another.
  2. (usually) 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.

Questions about bicameralisms

What is bicameralisms the plural of?
Bicameralisms is the plural of bicameralism.

Words near bicameralisms in the dictionary

  1. bicameral legislature
  2. bicameral legislatures
  3. bicameral mind
  4. bicameral minds
  5. bicameralism
  6. bicameralisms
  7. bicameralist
  8. bicameralists
  9. bicamerality
  10. bicamerally
  11. bicamerate

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