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 • Sep. 26, 2025
Her husband, Jonathan, who handles narration every third chapter, is more unidimensional, or at least curiously edgeless.
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2019
List: I’m not convinced that we can have a single unidimensional measure of progress.
From Scientific American • Jun. 8, 2019
Numbering more than 200 per year, athletes were the largest group of unidimensional admits and have a whopping 88 percent acceptance rate.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2018
He postulated that West Germany still suffers from an identity crisis, a "unidimensional" sense of itself as merely an industrial rather than a political power.
From Time Magazine Archive
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