bicameralism

English

Etymology

From bicameral +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bi‧cam‧er‧al‧ism

Noun

bicameralism (usually uncountable, plural bicameralisms)

1. (government) The practice of dividing legislative bodies into two chambers with complementary powers and limitations designed to provide checks and balances against one another.

   Coordinate terms: tricameralism, unicameralism

2. (psychology) Ambiguous misnomer for Julian Jaynes's theory of bicamerality, probably never used by Jaynes, rarely used in academic literature based on his work, but often found informally (compare bicameral mind and bicameral mentality)
   • 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.

   • 2016, Susan G. Josephson, From Idolatry to Advertising: Visual Art and Contemporary Culture, →ISBN:

     As a result of this bicameralism, they were not conscious as we are today, and had no unified sense of self.

   • 2016, Marcel Kuijsten, Gods, Voices, Julian Jaynes and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes, (Introduction):

     "...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

Related terms

• bicameral
• bicamerality

Descendants

• Russian: бикамерали́зм m (bikameralízm)

Translations

principle of dividing legislative body into two groups

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兩院制 / 两院制 (zh) (liǎngyuànzhì)

• Finnish: kaksikamarijärjestelmä
• French: bicaméralisme (fr) m
• Georgian: ორპალატიანობა (orṗalaṭianoba), ბიკამერალიზმი (biḳameralizmi)
• German: Bikameralismus m
• Indonesian: bikameralisme
• Italian: bicameralismo (it) m
• Japanese: 二院制 (ja) (にいんせい, niinsei), 両院制 (ja) (りょういんせい, ryōinsei)
• Korean: 양원제(兩院制) (ko) (yang'wonje)
• Polish: bikameralizm m, dwuizbowość f
• Portuguese: bicamaralismo m, bicameralismo (pt) m
• Romanian: bicamerism n
• Russian: двухпала́тная систе́ма f (dvuxpalátnaja sistéma), двухпала́тность f (dvuxpalátnostʹ), бикамерали́зм (ru) m (bikameralízm), бикамери́зм (ru) m (bikamerízm)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bicaméralisme.

Noun

bicameralism n (plural bicameralisme)

1. bicameralism

Declension

Declension of bicameralism

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bicameralism	bicameralismul		bicameralisme	bicameralismele
genitive-dative	bicameralism	bicameralismului		bicameralisme	bicameralismelor
vocative	bicameralismule			bicameralismelor