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Dualist vs Duelist - What's the difference?

dualist | duelist |

As nouns the difference between dualist and duelist

is that dualist is any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil while duelist is a person who fights a duel.

As an adjective dualist

is of or supporting dualism.

dualist

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or supporting dualism
  • She has a strictly dualist approach to morality.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil
  • The Manicheans were dualists .
  • Any person who believes in or argues for the duality of something
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  • , passage=Regarding the second option, suppose that a substance dualist who is also a theist accounts for the conceptual possibility of a mental difference by claiming that God decided to put a soul in one individual but not the other. }}

    Derived terms

    * dualistic

    See also

    * (wikipedia "dualist")

    duelist

    English

    Alternative forms

    * duellist

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who fights a duel.
  • Synonyms

    * dueler

    Anagrams

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