Figure 3. Value polarities (Section VP). Presented in
order of the number of cross-references to constructive and destructive
value words (Sections VC and VD). Low order polarities have been omitted.
Polarity names are only indicative. Most cited constructive value words
are presented in Figure
1; destructive value words in Figure
2. See commentary.
These words are used as a basis for relating values to world
problems (destructive values) and organizational strategies
(constructive values) in the Encyclopedia
of World Problems and Human Potential. These polarities are clustered
by "value type" in Figure
4
VP No | VALUE POLARITY | VC | VD | TOT. | % |
VP5863 | Pleasantness-Unpleasantness | 34 | 118 | 152 | 2.1 |
VP5624 | Resolution-Irresolution | 58 | 68 | 126 | 1.7 |
VP5467 | Intelligence-Unintelligence | 63 | 60 | 123 | 1.7 |
VP5974 | Probity-Improbity | 73 | 46 | 119 | 1.6 |
VP5674 | Goodness-Badness | 44 | 72 | 116 | 1.6 |
VP5733 | Skilfulness-Unskilfulness | 65 | 49 | 114 | 1.6 |
VP5938 | Kindness-Unkindness | 49 | 57 | 106 | 1.5 |
VP5161 | Energy-Moderation | 63 | 42 | 105 | 1.4 |
VP5516 | Truth-Error | 51 | 52 | 103 | 1.4 |
VP5980 | Virtue-Vice | 24 | 75 | 99 | 1.4 |
VP5785 | Support-Opposition | 62 | 35 | 97 | 1.3 |
VP5794 | Accord-Disaccord | 46 | 49 | 95 | 1.3 |
VP5513 | Certainty-Uncertainty | 43 | 51 | 94 | 1.3 |
VP5554 | Communicativeness-Uncommunicativeness | 19 | 75 | 94 | 1.3 |
VP5631 | Desire-Avoidance | 45 | 43 | 88 | 1.2 |
VP5914 | Repute-Disrepute | 49 | 37 | 86 | 1.2 |
VP5705 | Action-Inaction | 41 | 41 | 82 | 1.1 |
VP5890 | Courage-Fear | 32 | 50 | 82 | 1.1 |
VP5665 | Appropriateness-Inappropriateness | 23 | 57 | 80 | 1.1 |
VP5968 | Approval-Disapproval | 28 | 52 | 80 | 1.1 |
VP5533 | Carefulness-Neglect | 46 | 33 | 79 | 1.1 |
VP5026 | Agreement-Disagreement | 36 | 42 | 78 | 1.1 |
VP5660 | Oversufficiency-Insufficiency | 23 | 53 | 76 | 1.0 |
VP5762 | Freedom-Restraint | 48 | 27 | 75 | 1.0 |
VP5870 | Cheerfulness-Solemnity | 43 | 32 | 75 | 1.0 |
VP5896 | Taste-Vulgarity | 40 | 33 | 73 | 1.0 |
VP5157 | Power-Impotence | 38 | 34 | 72 | 1.0 |
VP5691 | Improvement-Impairment | 22 | 49 | 71 | 1.0 |
VP5927 | Friendship-Enmity | 41 | 30 | 71 | 1.0 |
VP5987 | Chastity-Unchastity | 25 | 45 | 70 | 0.9 |
VP5677 | Perfection-Imperfection | 27 | 39 | 66 | 0.9 |
VP5732 | Facility-Difficulty | 18 | 47 | 65 | 0.9 |
VP5672 | Importance-Unimportance | 31 | 32 | 63 | 0.8 |
VP5530 | Attention-Inattention | 28 | 33 | 61 | 0.8 |
VP5475 | Knowledge-Ignorance | 39 | 18 | 57 | 0.8 |
VP5501 | Belief-Unbelief | 31 | 25 | 56 | 0.7 |
VP5964 | Respect-Disrespect | 21 | 34 | 55 | 0.7 |
VP5481 | Intuition-Reason | 21 | 33 | 54 | 0.7 |
VP5948 | Congratulation-Envy | 0 | 53 | 53 | 0.7 |
VP5059 | Order-Disorder | 16 | 36 | 52 | 0.7 |
VP5878 | Amusement-Boredom | 18 | 34 | 52 | 0.7 |
VP5621 | Willingness-Unwillingness | 39 | 12 | 51 | 0.7 |
VP5685 | Health-Disease | 19 | 32 | 51 | 0.7 |
VP5855 | Feeling-Unfeelinglessness | 20 | 30 | 50 | 0.7 |
VP5900 | Naturalness-Affectation | 28 | 22 | 50 | 0.7 |
VP5693 | Restoration-Destruction | 11 | 37 | 48 | 0.6 |
VP5697 | Safety-Danger | 27 | 20 | 47 | 0.6 |
VP5159 | Strength-Weakness | 19 | 27 | 46 | 0.6 |
VP5739 | Authority-Lawlessness | 28 | 18 | 46 | 0.6 |
VP5857 | Excitement-Inexcitability | 35 | 11 | 46 | 0.6 |
VP5908 | Modesty-Vanity | 11 | 35 | 46 | 0.6 |
VP5922 | Sociability-Unsociability | 31 | 14 | 45 | 0.6 |
VP5936 | Courtesy-Discourtesy | 26 | 19 | 45 | 0.6 |
VP5899 | Beauty-Ugliness | 25 | 19 | 44 | 0.6 |
VP5141 | Stability-Changeableness | 22 | 21 | 43 | 0.6 |
VP5756 | Leniency-Compulsion | 26 | 17 | 43 | 0.6 |
VP5766 | Obedience-Disobedience | 14 | 29 | 43 | 0.6 |
VP5905 | Pride-Humility | 22 | 21 | 43 | 0.6 |
VP5930 | Love-Hate | 26 | 17 | 43 | 0.6 |
VP5472 | Sanity-Insanity | 12 | 30 | 42 | 0.5 |
VP5722 | Accomplishment-Nonaccomplishment | 29 | 12 | 41 | 0.5 |
VP5957 | Rightness-Wrongness | 20 | 21 | 41 | 0.5 |
VP5129 | Timeliness-Untimeliness | 19 | 21 | 40 | 0.5 |
VP5728 | Prosperity-Adversity | 23 | 17 | 40 | 0.5 |
VP5978 | Unselfishness-Selfishness | 27 | 13 | 40 | 0.5 |
VP5526 | Broadmindedness-Narrowmindedness | 20 | 19 | 39 | 0.5 |
VP6028 | Piety-Impiety | 23 | 16 | 39 | 0.5 |
VP5521 | Assent-Dissent | 19 | 19 | 38 | 0.5 |
VP5865 | Pleasure-Displeasure | 37 | 1 | 38 | 0.5 |
VP5548 | Intelligibility-Unintelligibility | 18 | 19 | 37 | 0.5 |
VP5648 | Motivation-Dissuasion | 33 | 4 | 37 | 0.5 |
VP5815 | Sharing-Appropriation | 25 | 12 | 37 | 0.5 |
VP5976 | Justice-Injustice | 20 | 17 | 37 | 0.5 |
VP5054 | Completeness-Incompleteness | 27 | 9 | 36 | 0.5 |
VP5172 | Influence-Influencelessness | 28 | 8 | 36 | 0.5 |
VP5034 | Greatness-Smallness | 29 | 6 | 35 | 0.4 |
VP5422 | Sensation-Insensibility | 14 | 20 | 34 | 0.4 |
VP5775 | Consent-Refusal | 18 | 16 | 34 | 0.4 |
VP5888 | Hope-Hopelessness | 16 | 18 | 34 | 0.4 |
VP5944 | Compassion-Pitilessness | 25 | 9 | 34 | 0.4 |
VP5036 | Superiority-Inferiority | 12 | 21 | 33 | 0.4 |
VP5248 | Symmetry-Distortion | 14 | 19 | 33 | 0.4 |
VP5407 | Life-Death | 14 | 19 | 33 | 0.4 |
VP5670 | Expedience-Inexpedience | 9 | 24 | 33 | 0.4 |
VP5013 | Identity-Difference | 15 | 17 | 32 | 0.4 |
VP5861 | Patience-Impatience | 21 | 11 | 32 | 0.4 |
VP5868 | Contentment-Discontentment | 15 | 17 | 32 | 0.4 |
VP5720 | Preparedness-Unpreparedness | 15 | 16 | 31 | 0.4 |
VP5808 | Possession-Loss | 14 | 17 | 31 | 0.4 |
VP5894 | Caution-Rashness | 15 | 16 | 31 | 0.4 |
VP5992 | Temperance-Intemperance | 13 | 18 | 31 | 0.4 |
VP5082 | Conformity-Nonconformity | 19 | 11 | 30 | 0.4 |
VP5139 | Change-Permanence | 28 | 1 | 29 | 0.4 |
VP5681 | Cleanness-Uncleanness | 12 | 17 | 29 | 0.4 |
VP5050 | Cohesion-Disintegration | 9 | 19 | 28 | 0.3 |
VP5076 | Inclusion-Exclusion | 8 | 20 | 28 | 0.3 |
VP5492 | Discrimination-Indiscrimination | 18 | 10 | 28 | 0.3 |
VP5562 | Education-Miseducation | 20 | 8 | 28 | 0.3 |
VP6013 | Godliness-Ungodliness | 24 | 4 | 28 | 0.3 |
VP5600 | Eloquence-Uneloquence | 25 | 1 | 26 | 0.3 |
VP5848 | Expensiveness-Cheapness | 5 | 21 | 26 | 0.3 |
VP5885 | Comfort-Aggravation | 20 | 6 | 26 | 0.3 |
VP5535 | Imaginativeness-Unimaginativeness | 18 | 7 | 25 | 0.3 |
VP5960 | Dueness-Undueness | 14 | 11 | 25 | 0.3 |
VP5494 | Judgement-Misjudgement | 12 | 12 | 24 | 0.3 |
VP5637 | Choice-Necessity | 12 | 12 | 24 | 0.3 |
VP5873 | Exultation-Lamentation | 14 | 10 | 24 | 0.3 |
VP6005 | Vindication-Condemnation | 14 | 10 | 24 | 0.3 |
VP5045 | Simplicity-Complexity | 16 | 7 | 23 | 0.3 |
VP5267 | Motion-Quiescence | 11 | 12 | 23 | 0.3 |
VP5030 | Equality-Inequality | 12 | 10 | 22 | 0.3 |
VP5089 | Unity-Duality | 15 | 7 | 22 | 0.3 |
VP5110 | Durability-Transience | 15 | 7 | 22 | 0.3 |
VP5851 | Economy-Prodigality | 21 | 1 | 22 | 0.3 |
VP5947 | Forgiveness-Vengeance | 17 | 5 | 22 | 0.3 |
VP5122 | Newness-Oldness | 10 | 11 | 21 | 0.2 |
VP5589 | Elegance-Inelegance | 16 | 5 | 21 | 0.2 |
VP5690 | Selfactualization-Neurosis | 3 | 18 | 21 | 0.2 |
VP5726 | Victory-Defeat | 9 | 11 | 20 | 0.2 |
VP5998 | Legality-Illegality | 4 | 16 | 20 | 0.2 |
VP5539 | Expectation-Inexpectation | 11 | 8 | 19 | 0.2 |
VP5683 | Healthfulness-Unhealthfulness | 7 | 12 | 19 | 0.2 |
VP5925 | Hospitality-Inhospitality | 14 | 5 | 19 | 0.2 |
VP5323 | Oscillation-Agitation | 0 | 18 | 18 | 0.2 |
VP5545 | Meaning-Meaninglessness | 7 | 11 | 18 | 0.2 |
VP5737 | Behaviour-Misbehaviour | 8 | 10 | 18 | 0.2 |
VP5983 | Innocence-Guilt | 14 | 4 | 18 | 0.2 |
VP5001 | Existence-Nonexistence | 12 | 5 | 17 | 0.2 |
VP5177 | Concurrence-Counteraction | 16 | 1 | 17 | 0.2 |
VP5478 | Thought-Thoughtlessness | 13 | 4 | 17 | 0.2 |
VP5038 | Increase-Decrease | 15 | 1 | 16 | 0.2 |
VP5145 | Conversion-Reversion | 4 | 12 | 16 | 0.2 |
VP5165 | Productiveness-Unproductiveness | 10 | 6 | 16 | 0.2 |
VP5186 | Presence-Absence | 7 | 9 | 16 | 0.2 |
VP5837 | Wealth-Poverty | 5 | 11 | 16 | 0.2 |
VP5047 | Conjunction-Separation | 6 | 9 | 15 | 0.2 |
VP5147 | Evolution-Revolution | 9 | 6 | 15 | 0.2 |
VP5335 | Light-Darkness | 12 | 3 | 15 | 0.2 |
VP5009 | Relatedness-Unrelatedness | 11 | 3 | 14 | 0.1 |
VP5017 | Uniformity-Nonuniformity | 5 | 9 | 14 | 0.1 |
VP5246 | Form-Formlessness | 2 | 12 | 14 | 0.1 |
VP5528 | Curiosity-Incuriosity | 3 | 11 | 14 | 0.1 |
VP5646 | Formality-Informality | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0.1 |
VP6026 | Sanctity-Unsanctity | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0.1 |
VP5003 | Substantiality-Unsubstantiality | 11 | 2 | 13 | 0.1 |
VP5153 | Causation-Culmination | 12 | 1 | 13 | 0.1 |
VP5352 | Weight-Lightness | 7 | 6 | 13 | 0.1 |
VP5462 | Harmony-Discord | 8 | 4 | 12 | 0.1 |
VP5552 | Interpretability-Misinterpretability | 3 | 10 | 13 | 0.1 |
VP5023 | Originality-Imitation | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0.1 |
VP5167 | Production-Reproduction | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0.1 |
VP5358 | Elasticity-Toughness | 8 | 4 | 12 | 0.1 |
VP5427 | Savouriness-Unsavouriness | 4 | 8 | 12 | 0.1 |
VP5071 | Continuity-Discontinuity | 7 | 4 | 11 | 0.1 |
VP5155 | Attributability-Chance | 5 | 6 | 11 | 0.1 |
VP5170 | Ancestry-Posterity | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0.1 |
VP5290 | Direction-Deviation | 5 | 6 | 11 | 0.1 |
VP5573 | Representation-Misrepresentation | 2 | 9 | 11 | 0.1 |
VP5592 | Conciseness-Diffuseness | 8 | 3 | 11 | 0.1 |
VP5101 | Numerousness-Fewness | 7 | 3 | 10 | 0.1 |
VP5185 | Location-Dislocation | 7 | 3 | 10 | 0.1 |
VP5234 | Circumscription-Intrusion | 1 | 9 | 10 | 0.1 |
VP5485 | Research-Discovery | 9 | 1 | 10 | 0.1 |
VP5505 | Provability-Unprovability | 7 | 3 | 10 | 0.1 |
VP5920 | Wonder-Unastonishment | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0.1 |
VP5137 | Regularity-Irregularity | 6 | 3 | 9 | 0.1 |
VP5313 | Overrunning-Shortcoming | 0 | 9 | 9 | 0.1 |
VP5317 | Elevation-Depression | 6 | 3 | 9 | 0.1 |
VP5356 | Hardness-Softness | 6 | 3 | 9 | 0.1 |
VP5446 | Appearance-Disappearance | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0.1 |
VP5709 | Exertion-Rest | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0.1 |
VP5798 | Attack-Defence | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0.1 |
VP5949 | Gratitude-Ingratitude | 8 | 1 | 9 | 0.1 |
VP5135 | Frequency-Infrequency | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0.1 |
VP5195 | Bigness-Littleness | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0.1 |
VP5265 | Opening-Closure | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0.1 |
VP5444 | Visibility-Invisibility | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0.1 |
VP5806 | Neutrality-Compromise | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0.1 |
VP5112 | Perpetuity-Instantaneousness | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 |
VP5124 | Youth-Age | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0.0 |
VP5197 | Expansion-Contraction | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 |
VP5435 | Fragrance-Stench | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0.0 |
VP5509 | Possibility-Impossibility | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0.0 |
VP5642 | Conventionality-Unconventionality | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0.0 |
VP5695 | Refreshment-Relapse | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0.0 |
VP5119 | Futurity-Antiquity | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 |
VP5143 | Continuance-Cessation | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 |
VP5294 | Progression-Regression | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0.0 |
VP5451 | Silence-Loudness | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0.0 |