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Duality vs Trinity - What's the difference?

duality | trinity |

As a noun duality

is a classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.

As a proper noun trinity is

(christianity) in christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the godhead: father, son and holy spirit.

duality

English

Noun

(dualities)
  • A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.
  • (projective geometry) The interchangeability of points and planes.
  • (mathematics, physics) The mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system.

    • Synonyms

    * dichotomy

    Derived terms

    * wave-particle duality

    trinity

    English

    Noun

    (trinities)
  • A group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine.
  • *
  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity , earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
  • The state of being three; threeness.

    • Synonyms

    * (group of three) threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate * threeness

    Derived terms

    * nontrinitarian * nontrinitarianism * trinitarian

    See also

    * Trinity * Trinity College * quaternity * Unitarian