bicameralism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The practice of dividing legislative bodies into two chambers with complementary powers and limitations designed to provide checks and balances against one another.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "1978, Edward Proffitt, "Romanticism, Bicamerality, and the Evolution of the Brain", The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 9, No.1, reprinted with permission in Kuijsten, 2016, page 134. Coleridge...could not revert to bicameralism either."
- "As a result of this bicameralism, they were not conscious as we are today, and had no unified sense of self."
- ""...the evidence for bicameralism in early China." p. 2 "...to elucidate the evidence for bicameralism and the transition to consciousness..." p. 3 "...presents detailed evidence for bicameralism and the development of consciousness..." p. 14"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der. Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmáratider. Proto-Iranian *kamarāder. Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára)bor. Latin camera English -al English bicameral Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English bicameralism From bicameral + -ism.