dualist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English dual

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English dualist

From dual + -ist.

Adjective

dualist (not comparable)

1. Of or supporting dualism.

   She has a strictly dualist approach to morality.

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• antidualist
• dualistic
• nondualist

Translations

person supporting dualism

• Arabic: ثَنَوِيّ m (ṯanawiyy)
• Catalan: dualista m or f
• Czech: dualista m
• Greek: δυϊστής (el) m (dyïstís)

Related terms

• dualism

See also

• dualist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• laudits, tuladis

Danish

Noun

dualist c (singular definite dualisten, plural indefinite dualister)

1. dualist

Declension

Declension of dualist

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dualist	dualisten	dualister	dualisterne
genitive	dualists	dualistens	dualisters	dualisternes

Related terms

• dualisme
• dualistisk

References

• “dualist” in Den Danske Ordbog

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dualiste.

Adjective

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

1. dualistic

Declension

Declension of dualist

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	dualist		dualistă	dualiști	dualiste
	definite	dualistul		dualista	dualiștii	dualistele
genitive- dative	indefinite	dualist		dualiste	dualiști	dualiste
	definite	dualistului		dualistei	dualiștilor	dualistelor