bipolarity

American  

[bahy-poh-lar-i-tee] / ˌbaɪ poʊˈlær ɪ ti /

adjective

1. the quality or state of having two poles or extremes.

   The election showed a trend toward bipolarity, with almost all voters choosing one of the two largest parties.

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Etymology

Origin of bipolarity

First recorded in 1830–40; bipolar ( def. ) + -ity ( def. )

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bipolarity

Reviewing the novel a quarter century after diagnosing America’s literary bipolarity in “Paleface and Redskin,” Philip Rahv saluted its “masterful combination”—the demotic and literary, the astringent and poetic.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019

With the Frasers returning to Scotland, perhaps the show will move past its frenetic bipolarity and find a more even keel for the back half of Season Two.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2016

The idea that some kind of six-sided deterrence would work in this roiling cauldron of instability the way it did in the frozen bipolarity of the Cold War is simply ridiculous.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2015

There are also risks of adverse effects among people with psychological problems like bipolarity or schizophrenia.

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2014

Might this suggest that the prevalence of so-called bipolarity today is not simply an artefact of the marketing of new diagnostic categories?

From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2013

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