Definitions for duality

duality du·al·i·ty

Spelling: [doo-al-i-tee, dyoo-]
IPA: /duˈæl ɪ ti, dyu-/

Duality is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in duality (adiltuy).

Definitions for duality

noun

  1. a dual state or quality.
  2. Mathematics. a symmetry within a mathematical system such that a theorem remains valid if certain objects, relations, or operations are interchanged, as the interchange of points and lines in a plane in projective geometry.

Origin of duality

1350-1400; Middle English dualitie Late Latin duālitās. See dual, -ity

Examples for duality

In her, the duality of her being had created two distinct lives.

Much like the duality of his shop, Simon is half goateed-rocker, half cicerone sage.

“We liked the duality of these low-plunging costumes because Amy could slip from being confident to vulnerable,” says Wilkinson.

Buried halfway underground, the work has a duality of life and death—is it growing or is it a tomb?

The weakness of the play, as I have said, lies in its duality of action.

As a ballerina, to embody the duality of the Swan Queen and the black swan can be a fiendishly difficult task.

That duality is represented by Tom Ford more than any other designer.

duality is the root, out of which alone, for mortals, happiness can spring.

In a way, every one must have a sort of duality—a good and evil principle.

This then is the duality of my day and my night being: a duality so bitter to an adolescent.

Word Value for duality
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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