A dichotomy is an idea or classification split in two. When you point out a dichotomy, you draw a clear distinction between two things.
A cutting in two; a division.
Noun
being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture"
n.
A cutting in two; a division.
n.
Division or distribution of genera into two species;
division into two subordinate parts.
n.
That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or
shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
n.
Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a
plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its
origin; successive bifurcation.
n.
The place where a stem or vein is forked.
n.
Division into two; especially, the division of a class
into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the
division of the term man into white and not white.
Dichotomy
A general breach or dichotomy with their church.2.
A cutting in two; a division.
Usage Examples
Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.
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Other Usage ExamplesNever permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.