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unilinear

a. Made up of one single line.

Usage examples of "unilinear".

Now, since its very beginnings, the novel has always tried to escape the unilinear, to open rifts in the continuous narration of a story.

Progress underlay the various unilinear evolutionary schemes into which our society used to classify peoples and cultures: savagery-barbarism-civilization, for example, or gathering-hunt ing-horticultural-agricultural-industrial.

The so-called stream of consciousness was fairly unilinear, it seemed to Sax on introspection.