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binarist

binarist noun: one who believes in binarism or in a binary.

Noun

binarist (plural binarists)

  1. One who believes in binarism or in a binary.
    • Gender binarists believe that everybody is either male or female, with no middle ground.

Adjective

binarist

  1. Binaristic; exhibiting or advocating binarism.
    • While these modes of Chineseness are often, in practice, complementary, recent analyses have tended to frame them in more binarist terms.2006, Christopher Vasantkumar, Ethnicity's Entanglements: Intersections of Minzu and Development in China's "Little Tibet"
    • While Kohler's text is more binarist, circumscribed and pessimistic, Behr's text offers readers an understanding of the anxieties, hypocrisies, choices and complicities which soiled all under apartheid; […]2007, Cheryl Stobie, Somewhere in the double rainbow: representations of bisexuality in post-apartheid novels, Univ. of Natal Pr., →ISBN

Forms of binarist

pluralbinarists

Origin of binarist

From binary + -ist.

Questions about binarist

What does binarist mean?
Binarist means one who believes in binarism or in a binary.
What part of speech is binarist?
Binarist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of binarist?
The plural of binarist is binarists.

Words near binarist in the dictionary

  1. binarised
  2. binarises
  3. binarising
  4. binarism
  5. binarisms
  6. binarist
  7. binaristic
  8. binaristically
  9. binarists
  10. binarities
  11. binarity

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