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Hypocrisy vs Duality - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between hypocrisy and duality

is that hypocrisy is the claim or pretense of having beliefs, standards, qualities, behaviours, virtues, motivations, etc. which one does not actually have while duality is a classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.

hypocrisy

English

Noun

(hypocrisies)
  • The claim or pretense of having]] beliefs, standards, qualities, [[behaviour, behaviours, virtues, motivations, etc. which one does not actually have.
  • The practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticises another; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.
  • An instance of either or both of the above.

    • Derived terms

    * hypocritical * hypocritically * hypocrite

    See also

    * ("hypocrisy" on Wikipedia)

    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