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culturalist

culturalist noun: one who subscribes to culturalism.

Noun

culturalist (plural culturalists)

  1. One who subscribes to culturalism.
    • Do ideals, symbols and beliefs lead people to act as they do? Or are the wellsprings of action and the drivers of history less ethereal: money, fear, the thirst for power, circumstance and opportunity, with culture as an afterthought? Scholars in the first camp are culturalists; in the second...2018 September 14, Neil Gross, “Is Your Culture ‘Tight’ or ‘Loose’? The Answer Could Explain Everything”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of culturalist

pluralculturalists

Origin of culturalist

From cultural + -ist.

Questions about culturalist

What does culturalist mean?
Culturalist means one who subscribes to culturalism.
What part of speech is culturalist?
Culturalist is a noun.
What is the plural of culturalist?
The plural of culturalist is culturalists.

Words near culturalist in the dictionary

  1. culturalised
  2. culturalises
  3. culturalising
  4. culturalism
  5. culturalisms
  6. culturalist
  7. culturalistic
  8. culturalists
  9. culturalities
  10. culturality
  11. culturalization

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