What is another word for Manichaean?

Pronunciation: [mˌanɪʃˈi͡ən] (IPA)

The term Manichaean is used to describe a dualistic or black-and-white worldview that divides everything into good and evil. There are many synonyms for this concept including dualistic, dichotomous, binary, polarized, and bifurcated. Other related terms include absolutist, dogmatic, rigid, narrow-minded, and fundamentalist. These synonyms all describe a belief system that sees the world in terms of opposing forces, where the rightness or wrongness of an action depends entirely on which side it falls on. While such a Manichaean worldview can be appealing in its simplicity, it often fails to capture the nuances and complexities of reality, leading to an overly simplistic understanding of the world.

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Usage examples for Manichaean

"Therefore the Manichaean said This simple prayer on breaking bread, Lest he with hasty hand or knife Might wound the incarcerated life, The soul in things that we call dead: 'I did not reap thee, did not bind thee, I did not thrash thee, did not grind thee, Nor did I in the oven bake thee!
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The world will grow tired of pretending to admire Manichaean pictures in an age of natural science; and Art will let the dead bury their dead, and beginning again where Michael Angelo and Rafaelle left off work forward into a nobler, truer, freer, and more divine school than the world has yet seen-at least, so I hope.
"Prose Idylls"
Charles Kingsley
Christianity retained the idea; it brought out the meaning of the old Jewish polity in its highest form; for that very reason it was able to bring out the meaning of the "mystic" idea in its highest form also, without injury to men's work as members of families, as citizens, as practical men of the world; and so to conquer at last that Manichaean hatred of marriage and parentage, which from the first to the sixteenth century shed its Upas shade over the Church.
"Literary and General Lectures and Essays"
Charles Kingsley

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