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afairyist

afairyist noun: a person who does not believe in fairies.

Noun

afairyist (plural afairyists)

  1. (humorous, rare) A person who does not believe in fairies.
    • But consider this: your typical atheist does not believe in fairies, goblins, sprites, water nymphs, demons, angels, ghosts or elves either. Why not call him an 'afairyist', or an 'agoblinist', or an 'anymphist', and so endlessly on?2010 March 30, A. C. Grayling, Ideas That Matter: The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 38
    • Nobody can actually say for certain that anything doesn't exist, but I'm an atheist in the same way as I am an aleprechaunist and an afairyist and an apinkunicornist.2019 February 24, Dawkins on Religion, spoken by Richard Dawkins, via Al Jazeera

Forms of afairyist

pluralafairyists

Origin of afairyist

From a- + fairy + -ist, based on atheist.

Questions about afairyist

What does afairyist mean?
Afairyist means a person who does not believe in fairies.
What part of speech is afairyist?
Afairyist is a noun.
What is the plural of afairyist?
The plural of afairyist is afairyists.

Words near afairyist in the dictionary

  1. AFAICS
  2. afaict
  3. afaik
  4. afaint
  5. AFAIR
  6. afairyist
  7. afairyists
  8. AFAIU
  9. AFAIUI
  10. Afaka
  11. afalina

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