bipolarist

bipolarist adjective: pertaining to bipolarism.

Adjective

bipolarist (comparative more bipolarist, superlative most bipolarist)

Pertaining to bipolarism.
- In retrospect, what seems principally to have been lacking at this time was any real understanding, or perhaps rather acceptance, among the ENDC nuclear powers of the actual gait of proliferation, and of its relationship to what the still prevailing bipolarist philosophy considered to be the...1969, Adelphi Papers - Issues 56-73
- There are two unavoidable conclusions from this examination of the world's experience of arms control in the nuclear age: what has been achieved has been ineffective and insufficient, and it has been bipolarist in the sense that it has been devised and carried through into international treaties...1971, Elizabeth Young, Ritchie Calder, Pacem in Maribus - Volumes 1-3, page 29

bipolarist (plural bipolarists)

One who views something in terms of two exclusive categories.
- Plato was a bipolarist in his exposition of the "unity of opposites" in such seeming bifurcations as the One and Many, Identity and Difference, Same and Other, True and False, Being and Non- Being, Rest and Motion, Permanence and Change.1955, James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters, School & Society - Volumes 81-82, page 178
- The basic critical vision is sensible and comprehensive: Melville is seen not as a formulator of rigid antinomies but as an habitual bipolarist, both attracted to and repelled by opposed ideas.1962, Clarence Louis Frank Gohdes, American Literature

The incipient bipolarist undertone of this document also owed much to Hansen's view of the economic factors.1992, Carlo Maria Santoro, Diffidence and ambition: the intellectual sources of U.S. foreign policy:
The bipolarist says: A poem is a poem, and not another thing.1990, New Quest - Issue 80, page 94:

From bipolar + -ist.

What does bipolarist mean?: Bipolarist means pertaining to bipolarism.
How do you use bipolarist in a sentence?: The incipient bipolarist undertone of this document also owed much to Hansen's view of the economic factors.
What part of speech is bipolarist?: Bipolarist can be an adjective or a noun.

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