Dictionary 1. (n.) State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction2. (n.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit. 3. (n.) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil. 4. (n.) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate. 5. (n.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other. Thesaurus Janus acosmism allotheism ambiguity ambivalence anthropolatry anthropomorphism anthropotheism autotheism biformity bifurcation conjugation cosmotheism deism dichotomy ditheism doubleness doublethink doubling duality duplexity duplication duplicity dyotheism equivocality halving henotheism hylotheism irony monolatry monotheism multitheism myriotheism pairing pantheism physicomorphism physitheism pluralism polarity polytheism psychotheism tetratheism theism theopantism theriotheism tritheism twinning two-facedness twoness zootheism |