dichotomy

dichotomy is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A cutting in two; a division. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 20 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A cutting in two; a division.
2. noun. Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
3. noun. That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
4. noun. Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.
5. noun. The place where a stem or vein is forked.
6. noun. Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.
7. noun. being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses

   "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture"

   Synonyms: duality

Synonyms

duality

Common word forms

dichotomies

Words from these letters

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