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neartermist

neartermist noun: a believer or follower of neartermism.

Noun

neartermist (plural neartermists)

  1. A believer or follower of neartermism.
    • Longtermists are in daily conversation with neartermists. It’s a red herring to argue that “abandoning what would most help people on Earth today isn’t exactly ethically sound.”2022 September 9, Theodore Leinwand, “Neartermism and longtermism aren’t at odds”, in The Washington Post

Adjective

neartermist (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to or supporting neartermism.
    • But last summer Bankman-Fried was telling The New Yorker’s Gideon Lewis-Kraus something quite different. “He told me that he never had a bed-nets phase, and considered neartermist causes — global health and poverty — to be more emotionally driven,” Lewis-Kraus wrote in August.2022 December 9, Jennifer Szalai, “Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them?”, in The New York Times

Forms of neartermist

pluralneartermists

Origin of neartermist

From near-term + -ist.

Questions about neartermist

What does neartermist mean?
Neartermist means a believer or follower of neartermism.
What part of speech is neartermist?
Neartermist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of neartermist?
The plural of neartermist is neartermists.

Words near neartermist in the dictionary

  1. nearsighted
  2. nearsightedly
  3. nearsightedness
  4. nearsightednesses
  5. neartermism
  6. neartermist
  7. neartermists
  8. nearthroses
  9. nearthrosis
  10. nearthrotic
  11. nearwork

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