binarist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
binarist (plural binarists)
- One who believes in binarism or in a binary.
- Gender binarists believe that everybody is either male or female, with no middle ground.
Adjective[edit]
binarist
- Binaristic; exhibiting or advocating binarism.
- 2006, Christopher Vasantkumar, Ethnicity's Entanglements: Intersections of Minzu and Development in China's "Little Tibet":
- While these modes of Chineseness are often, in practice, complementary, recent analyses have tended to frame them in more binarist terms.
- 2007, Cheryl Stobie, Somewhere in the double rainbow: representations of bisexuality in post-apartheid novels, Univ. of Natal Pr., →ISBN:
- While Kohler's text is more binarist, circumscribed and pessimistic, Behr's text offers readers an understanding of the anxieties, hypocrisies, choices and complicities which soiled all under apartheid; […]
- 2009, Sarah Street, British National Cinema, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 216:
- […] Potter became disillusioned with the avant-garde as a filmic mode for political and/ or feminist goals, and with Orlando aimed at a more comprehensible narrative and a less binarist conception of gender.
- 2018, Vlad Strukov, Sarah Hudspith, Russian Culture in the Age of Globalization, Routledge, →ISBN:
- The different ways of mythologizing Tolstoy indicate a return to more binarist modes of thinking on the cultural plane, which threatens the dialectical relationship between the universal and the particular (Adorno 1991).