lateralists

Noun

lateralist (plural lateralists)

1. One who engages in lateral thinking.
   • The correlator is a lateralist capable of making one to one correspondences between the vertical sciences and the horizontal arts.1971, William Katavolos, Journal of the Industrial Designers Society of America - Volume 4, page 16
2. One who favors a lateral approach or explanation over one that involves a different direction.
   • Harris was not, however, as we have already said, to walk the course, for the lateralists and attractists, took the field against him, and for a while divided the opinions of those interested in the matter. The lateral-explosionists were demolished by Messrs. Faraday and Wheatstone, who distinctly...1843, The United Service Magazine - Volume 42, page 500
3. One who favors lateralism.
   • It was at this meeting, after all, that many of us discovered for the first time that we were global unilateralists, global multilateralists, non-global unilateralists or multilateralists, to say nothing of lateralists of various persuasions and intensities.1982, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Henry A. Kissinger, Eugene Victor Rostow, The Transatlantic Crisis

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