unidimensional

[yoo-ni-di-men-shuh-nl, -dahy-]

adjective

1. one-dimensional.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unidimensional¹

1880–85; uni- + dimensional ( def. )

Example Sentences

It strips away the parts of each individual’s identity that make us different and collapses our complexity into a unidimensional, static version of who we are and could be.

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I dismiss any unidimensional analysis of politics and voting.

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“You Again” offers a sophisticated argument about the nature of time and memory: “Although we experience time as unidimensional – as a unidirectional sequence of events – physicists have known this to be an illusion since Einstein.”

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“You don’t want to make a unidimensional decision about the entire country,” he said.

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Her husband, Jonathan, who handles narration every third chapter, is more unidimensional, or at least curiously edgeless.

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