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informationist

informationist noun: one who gathers, analyzes, interprets and uses information, possibly as a career.

Noun

informationist (plural informationists)

  1. One who gathers, analyzes, interprets and uses information, possibly as a career.
  2. One who practices informationism.

Forms of informationist

pluralinformationists

Origin of informationist

From information + -ist. Informationist and informationism are first known to have arisen in the work of a group of Scottish poets in the 1994 book Contraflow on the SuperHighway.

Questions about informationist

What does informationist mean?
Informationist means one who gathers, analyzes, interprets and uses information, possibly as a career.
What part of speech is informationist?
Informationist is a noun.
What is the plural of informationist?
The plural of informationist is informationists.

Words near informationist in the dictionary

  1. informationalism
  2. informationalization
  3. informationalizations
  4. informationally
  5. informationism
  6. informationist
  7. informationists
  8. informationization
  9. informationize
  10. informationized
  11. informationizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: informationist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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