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Meanings of twoness in English

Russian
двойственность
Portuguese
dualismo
Spanish
dualismo
Catalan
dualitat
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Philosophical or religious belief in two fundamental substances or principles, which often oppose each other.

        Related terms
        двойственность
        Usage of twoness in English
        1
        David hunted for twoness, yet he couldn't find it.
        The marks of cain
        2
        This is, however, not the only possible form of the disappearance of our "twoness," and the resulting loss of the self-feeling.
        The Psychology of Beauty
        3
        DuBois' theory on the "twoness" of Black life to explain the difficulty of being a woman of color, faced with both sexism and racism.
        Ebony
        4
        Don't say a syllable about the Infernal Twoness.
        The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4