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relativiser

relativiser is the alternative form of relativizer.

Meaning of relativizer

Noun

relativizer (plural relativizers)

  1. Someone or something that relativizes.
    • Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told Bild it was not enough that Extinction Rebellion had distanced itself from Mr. Hallam. […]
      “As keen as they criticize climate change deniers,” he said, “they should also do it with Holocaust relativizers.”2019 November 21, Elian Peltier, “Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Apologizes for Holocaust Remarks”, in The New York Times
  2. A grammatical element used to indicate a relative clause.

Forms of relativiser

pluralrelativisers

Questions about relativiser

What is relativiser the alternative form of?
Relativiser is the alternative form of relativizer.

Words near relativiser in the dictionary

  1. relatives
  2. relativisation
  3. relativisations
  4. relativise
  5. relativised
  6. relativiser
  7. relativisers
  8. relativises
  9. relativising
  10. relativism
  11. relativisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: relativiser (page history and authors); relativizer (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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