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safetyist

safetyist noun: a proponent of safetyism; someone obsessed with safety.

Noun

safetyist (plural safetyists)

  1. A proponent of safetyism; someone obsessed with safety.
    • […] First, from our nascent class of celebrity safetyists, we’re told mankind’s technological destruction is certain unless we halt interrogation and development of every field from synthetic biology to advanced computing, reducing the imagined existential risk of novel technologies to something...2024 February, Mike Solana, “Hereticon: Apocalypse Ball”, in Founders Fund
    • In a conversation with another safetyist, a classic satirical headline came up: “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point.”2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 45

Forms of safetyist

pluralsafetyists

Origin of safetyist

From safety + -ist.

Questions about safetyist

What does safetyist mean?
Safetyist means a proponent of safetyism; someone obsessed with safety.
What part of speech is safetyist?
Safetyist is a noun.
What is the plural of safetyist?
The plural of safetyist is safetyists.

Words near safetyist in the dictionary

  1. safety-valved
  2. safety-valves
  3. safety-valving
  4. safetying
  5. safetyism
  6. safetyist
  7. safetyists
  8. safetyman
  9. safetymen
  10. safetyness
  11. safeword

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