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punctuationist

punctuationist noun: in evolutionary biology, one who believes in punctuationism.

Noun

punctuationist (plural punctuationists)

  1. In evolutionary biology, one who believes in punctuationism.
    • Since most of the life of a species, on the punctuationist view, is spent in unchanging stasis, and since a species has a discrete beginning and end, it follows that, to a punctuationist, a species can be said to have a definite, measurable ‘life span’.1986, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W. Norton & Company, published 2015, →ISBN

Forms of punctuationist

pluralpunctuationists

Origin of punctuationist

From punctuation + -ist.

Questions about punctuationist

What does punctuationist mean?
Punctuationist means in evolutionary biology, one who believes in punctuationism.
What part of speech is punctuationist?
Punctuationist is a noun.
What is the plural of punctuationist?
The plural of punctuationist is punctuationists.

Words near punctuationist in the dictionary

  1. punctuation marks
  2. punctuation space
  3. punctuation spaces
  4. punctuational
  5. punctuationism
  6. punctuationist
  7. punctuationists
  8. punctuationless
  9. punctuations
  10. punctuative
  11. punctuator

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