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antiessentialist

antiessentialist adjective: opposing essentialism.

Adjective

antiessentialist (comparative more antiessentialist, superlative most antiessentialist)

  1. Opposing essentialism.
    • Cassavetes' cinema is antiessentialist. Behavior is not reducible to origins, causes, intentions, motives, goals, or desires.1985, Raymond Carney, The Films of John Cassavetes, Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies, page 186

Noun

antiessentialist (plural antiessentialists)

  1. One who opposes essentialism.

Forms of antiessentialist

Adjective
comparativemore antiessentialist
superlativemost antiessentialist
Noun
pluralantiessentialists

Origin of antiessentialist

From anti- + essentialist.

Questions about antiessentialist

What does antiessentialist mean?
Antiessentialist means opposing essentialism.
What part of speech is antiessentialist?
Antiessentialist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antiessentialist in the dictionary

  1. antierysipelas
  2. antierythrocyte
  3. anties
  4. antiespionage
  5. antiessentialism
  6. antiessentialist
  7. antiessentialists
  8. antiestablishment
  9. antiestablishmentarian
  10. antiestablishmentarianism
  11. antiestablishmentarians

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