unidimensional
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unidimensional
1880–85; uni- + dimensional ( def. )
Example Sentences
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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.
From Salon
I dismiss any unidimensional analysis of politics and voting.
From Salon
“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.”
From Washington Post
“You don’t want to make a unidimensional decision about the entire country,” he said.
From Washington Times
Her husband, Jonathan, who handles narration every third chapter, is more unidimensional, or at least curiously edgeless.
From New York Times
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