Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being bipolar; double polarity.
- noun In biology, the occurrence of organisms, mostly marine, in both polar areas, but not in the tropics. See
discontinuous distribution .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Bipolar quality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
bipolar
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Examples
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Such black-and-white bipolarity is enormously palatable when packaged in punchy, 90-second sound bytes.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: 'The Women's Voices Now' Film Festival: Women's Voices From the Muslim World MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Such black-and-white bipolarity is enormously palatable when packaged in punchy, 90-second sound bytes.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: 'The Women's Voices Now' Film Festival: Women's Voices From the Muslim World MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Such black-and-white bipolarity is enormously palatable when packaged in punchy, 90-second sound bytes.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: 'The Women's Voices Now' Film Festival: Women's Voices From the Muslim World MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Such black-and-white bipolarity is enormously palatable when packaged in punchy, 90-second sound bytes.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: 'The Women's Voices Now' Film Festival: Women's Voices From the Muslim World MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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Such black-and-white bipolarity is enormously palatable when packaged in punchy, 90-second sound bytes.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: 'The Women's Voices Now' Film Festival: Women's Voices From the Muslim World MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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I think the mental issues, what's being called bipolarity or character logical illnesses, are interfering with her ability to have insight.
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Everyone has bad days, which is one reason this kind of bipolarity is much harder to recognize.
Bipolar Disorder: 10 Subtle Signs The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Now, I think the actual subset of people who are addicted to video gaming and that's the end of the story is very, very small - I think other mental illnesses such as bipolarity and depression are the root causes, unhealthy time spent playing video games is just a symptom.
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Here’s all you need to know about the conservative rightwing psyche: the entire world and their entire being is bound up in bipolarity.
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So, their "bipolarity" poses a 160-year mystery of the ocean-one that has only grown with time.
Scientific American 2010
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