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contrastivist

contrastivist noun: one who subscribes to contrastivism.

Noun

contrastivist (plural contrastivists)

  1. One who subscribes to contrastivism.
    • Now, I am going to argue that the contrastivist should accept a further condition on the knowledge-relation, a further relativization.2008 April 5, Peter Baumann, “Contrastivism Rather than Something Else? On the Limits of Epistemic Contrastivism”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI

Forms of contrastivist

pluralcontrastivists

Origin of contrastivist

From contrastive + -ist.

Questions about contrastivist

What does contrastivist mean?
Contrastivist means one who subscribes to contrastivism.
What part of speech is contrastivist?
Contrastivist is a noun.
What is the plural of contrastivist?
The plural of contrastivist is contrastivists.

Words near contrastivist in the dictionary

  1. contrastive
  2. contrastive linguistics
  3. contrastively
  4. contrastiveness
  5. contrastivism
  6. contrastivist
  7. contrastivists
  8. contrastivity
  9. contrastless
  10. contrastlessness
  11. contrastment

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