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Definition of dichotomy noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

dichotomy

noun
 
/daɪˈkɒtəmi/
 
/daɪˈkɑːtəmi/
[usually singular] (formal)
(plural dichotomies)
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  1. dichotomy (between A and B) a division or contrast between two groups or things that are completely opposite to and different from each other
    Word Originlate 16th cent.: via modern Latin from Greek dikhotomia, from dikho- ‘in two, apart’ + -tomia ‘cutting’, from temnein ‘to cut’.
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