| ONE-DIMENSIONAL |
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TWO-DIMENSIONAL |
Once upon a time most folks knew that “three-dimensional” characters or
ideas were rounded, fleshed out, and complex and “two-dimensional” ones
were flat and uninteresting. It seems that the knowledge of basic
geometry has declined in recent years, because today we hear
uninteresting characters and ideas described as “one-dimensional.”
According to Euclid, no physical object can be one-dimensional (of course,
according to modern physics, even two-dimensionality is only an abstract
concept). If you are still bothered by the notion that two dimensions
are one too many, just use “flat.”
