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absolutist

/ˈæb.səˌluː.tɪst//ˈæb.səˌlu.tɪst/

absolutist noun: one who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.

Noun

absolutist (plural absolutists)

  1. One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
  2. (metaphysics) One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the Absolute.
    • the unitarian — whether materialist, idealist, or absolutista. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood...
    • When absolutists reject humanism because they feel it to be untrue, that means that the whole habit of their mental needs is wedded already to a different view of reality, in comparison with which the humanistic world seems but the whim of a few irresponsible youths.1909, William James, The Meaning of Truth
  3. An uncompromising person; one who maintains certain principles to be absolute.
    • The billionaire tech mogul, who has described himself as a free speech absolutist, introduced a new red line this week after he claimed that a car carrying one of his children was accosted by a “crazy stalker.”2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Adjective

absolutist (comparative more absolutist, superlative most absolutist)

  1. Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; uncompromising.
    • The best and the worst features of the communal regime are illustrated in the resistance of the Lombard cities to Frederic Barbarossa, the first Emperor who formulated and applied to Italy a scheme of absolutist government.1911, H. W. Carless Davis, Medieval Europe

absolutist meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

absolutist in Tamil

முழுமைவாதி, தன்னைப் பற்றியே எண்ணுபவர்

absolutist in Urdu

مطلق العنانی کا حامی

absolutist in Kannada

ಅಭೇದವಾದಿ

Forms of absolutist

Noun
pluralabsolutists
alternative formabsolutistic
Adjective
comparativemore absolutist
superlativemost absolutist

Origin of absolutist

From absolute + -ist after French absolutiste.

Words formed from absolutist

Questions about absolutist

What does absolutist mean?
Absolutist means one who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
What is absolutist in Tamil?
Absolutist in Tamil is முழுமைவாதி, தன்னைப் பற்றியே எண்ணுபவர். See Absolutist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is absolutist?
Absolutist can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce absolutist?
Absolutist is pronounced /ˈæb.səˌluː.tɪst/ (UK).
What is the plural of absolutist?
The plural of absolutist is absolutists.

Words near absolutist in the dictionary

  1. absolutised
  2. absolutises
  3. absolutising
  4. absolutism
  5. absolutisms
  6. absolutist
  7. absolutistic
  8. absolutistically
  9. absolutists
  10. absolutival
  11. absolutive

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: absolutist (page history and authors); absolutist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); absolutist (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); absolutist (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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