A classification into two opposed parts or subclasses

Usage examples of dichotomy.

To begin with, the dichotomy between experience and construction is a false dichotomy.

The woman who represses her intellectuality, because she has accepted the same dichotomy, and is left with the same bitterness.

Forced to choose between subject or form, man or work, criticism is trapped in the traditional dichotomy between idea and expression.

It was so important that for the first and last time Dostoyevsky made a formal dichotomy between the ideological briefing, which even contains dialogue, and the novella which illustrates it.

The expansive beings which are thus created, monsters of universality, form doubles along vertical or horizontal axes, where the break, a sign of their essential dichotomy, is always signified.

In an essay which we might take as a practical example of how this dichotomy can be deconstructed, Richard Meyer writes, in the same volume, about the film star Rock Hudson, once the screen epitome of attractive heterosexual masculinity.

I guess it had always been, but now the dichotomy was beginning to show.

I think your conflicting dichotomy of a death wish and death aversion combined with astonishingly good luck is a mix we can use to our mutual benefit.

All these dichotomies distorted the true nature of man which had rather to be seen as a single stream of life, or on the model of a work of art, in which no part could be defined in abstraction from the others.

In practice, however, the frequently evoked political difference between the two approaches is surely less uniform and predictable than such stark dichotomies would imply.

In keeping with the implied dichotomy, and to keep an eye on each other, TWIN is run by two high ranking officers: Ilich Yevgeniy of KGB, Victor Nikolayevich of GRU.

This Weberian dichotomy has remained vivid and pertinent down to our own day.

M: The struggle and the conflict is the problem because they both squander energy and cause dichotomies in energy flows.

Here the questions are oversimple, or the dichotomies false, or the answers dependent on unspoken assumptions.

As a rule they go in pairs, in antithetic couples, every analysis being dichotomy, since the discernment of one path of abstraction determines in contrast, as a complementary remainder, the opposite path of direction.