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. )

Example Sentences

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

What follows is a sort of musical description of bipolarity expressed in the form of extreme dynamic peaking and troughing: LOUD-soft-LOUD, it goes.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2018

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