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hauntologist

hauntologist noun: a theorist of hauntology.

Noun

hauntologist (plural hauntologists)

  1. (uncommon) A theorist of hauntology.
    • Hauntologists suggest that the contemporary culture is more generally shaped by an unsettling temporal dislocation, a tendency to loop back to troubled, unresolved past events, and to experience recurring dreams of futures-lost. Time, as hauntologists have it, ‘is out of joint’.2022, Maria Mellins, Sarah Moore, editors, Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 121

Forms of hauntologist

pluralhauntologists

Origin of hauntologist

From hauntology + -ist.

Questions about hauntologist

What does hauntologist mean?
Hauntologist means a theorist of hauntology.
What part of speech is hauntologist?
Hauntologist is a noun.
What is the plural of hauntologist?
The plural of hauntologist is hauntologists.

Words near hauntologist in the dictionary

  1. hauntingly
  2. hauntingness
  3. hauntings
  4. hauntological
  5. hauntologically
  6. hauntologist
  7. hauntologists
  8. hauntology
  9. haunts
  10. hauntsome
  11. haunty

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