multipolarity

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English

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Etymology

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From multi- +‎ polarity.

Noun

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multipolarity (countable and uncountable, plural multipolarities)

  1. The condition of being multipolar.
    • 2000, David Reynolds, chapter 17, in One World Divisible, W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page 645:
      The 1990s confirmed the United States as the world's sole superpower. Bipolarity had disappeared with the Soviet Union; contrary to predictions, Germany and Japan had not yet turned economic muscle into military might to create a new era of “multipolarity.”

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